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A review by kirahaynes
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
5.0
The five by hallie rubenhold has completely changed how I view serial killings .
The victims are often reduced to what happened to them and the killer gets to have the story of their life told. In the five she talks about the lives of these women and how we forgot that the victims are people and view them as part of their killers stories.
I can’t recommend it highly enough and I hope to read more books like this. She doesn’t talk about the killings themselves which I think is powerful because victims are so much more than the worst thing that ever happened to them
The victims are often reduced to what happened to them and the killer gets to have the story of their life told. In the five she talks about the lives of these women and how we forgot that the victims are people and view them as part of their killers stories.
I can’t recommend it highly enough and I hope to read more books like this. She doesn’t talk about the killings themselves which I think is powerful because victims are so much more than the worst thing that ever happened to them