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A review by daisymaytwizell
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
challenging
dark
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.0
I love Rubenhold's whole manifesto for this piece, and she accomplishes it in spades. Rubenhold gives these women the best eulogy possible after what is clearly intensive research, and avoids any sort of sensationalism around the stories.
Graphic: Alcoholism
Moderate: Body horror, Child death, and Murder
Minor: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Trafficking
While this is a book around the Jack the Ripper victims, the focus is primarily on their lives before the murder - the murders themselves are not shown or described in detail, and the horrors of being poor in Victorian London are discussed sympathetically and by necessity.