Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

44 reviews

abi_sarah's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

An expertly written documentary of the lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper. The amount of research that went into writing this book is clear from the offset and the writing is engaging, emotional and empathetic. You really start to grow attached to the women and feel a profound sadness and heartfelt sympathies for the way society dictated that they lived their lives and subsequently the end that met them. 

Hallie Rubenhold really sets the scene of Victorian London and effortlessly introduces each of the victims with the societal norms and prejudices which forced them - in most cases - to live largely unhappy lives. She describes what it’s like to live in workhouses and what little privacy there is for those who live in them - perhaps explaining why now we value privacy so much as a society.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Alcohol

Minor: Chronic illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Grief, and Pregnancy

misskatya13's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

ylimets's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Misogyny, and Alcohol

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Miscarriage, Forced institutionalization, and Trafficking

nickydubs3's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Body horror, Chronic illness, and Violence

bookshelfhannah's review

challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

jessi_lou95's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Sexism, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Chronic illness, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, and Fire/Fire injury

mahmabaer's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad tense slow-paced

4.0

I enjoyed it for the most part and the author's basic theory

that all the women were not prostitutes

, does give one something to consider.  I do wish she hadn't been so heavyhanded in her attempt to find no blame towards the women themselves, as it makes it come across as if she is less interested in telling the stories of the five victims and more interested in proving her point.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

tlholmes's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Women’s history, non fiction 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Classism

krisha's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Rape, Police brutality, Kidnapping, and Grief

thinkingcatss's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic