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A review by jimbowen0306
Ripper by Isabel Allende
3.0
Ummm..... no. I really didn't like this books. Don't get me wrong, I could see that it's well written. I read it as someone who likes mysteries, but was trying to read "better" writers, and thought that reading a "good writer writing mysteries" might the best place to start.
The problem is that this isn't a very good mystery. Sure we need descriptions of people, but we also need something like clues, and we don't get that at all. I defy anyone to work out who did it, or why, before the denouement, given what we were given.
The story itself, sees some young kids, play an online multiplayer role playing game, where they started investigating the British Jack the Ripper case. This morphs into an investigation of local murders in San Francisco at the start of the book. In short the book is potentially good, has a good premise, it's just the story isn't that...scary or thought provoking.
The problem is that this isn't a very good mystery. Sure we need descriptions of people, but we also need something like clues, and we don't get that at all. I defy anyone to work out who did it, or why, before the denouement, given what we were given.
The story itself, sees some young kids, play an online multiplayer role playing game, where they started investigating the British Jack the Ripper case. This morphs into an investigation of local murders in San Francisco at the start of the book. In short the book is potentially good, has a good premise, it's just the story isn't that...scary or thought provoking.