03 September 2015

Ripper by Amy Carol Reeves REVIEW


Ripper Trilogy: Book One
Summary:

It's 1888, and after her mother's sudden death, Abbie is sent to live with her grandmother in a posh London neighborhood. When she begins volunteering at Whitechapel Hospital, Abbie finds she has a passion for helping the abused and sickly women there.
But within days, patients begin turning up murdered at the hands of Jack the Ripper. As more women are murdered, Abbie realizes that she and the Ripper share a strange connection: she has visions showing the Ripper luring his future victims to their deaths--moments before he turns his knife upon them. Her desperation to stop the massacres leads Abbie on a perilous hunt for the killer. And her search leads to a mysterious brotherhood whose link to the Ripper threatens not just London but all of mankind.

My Thoughts:

This was a very interesting book. I don't normally read historical fiction, but I read this one and like it. The book was well written with surprising plot twists. (like how the people she works with are helping Jack the Ripper). 
-But there was some swearing.
-Abbie's mother apparently was a model for a painting (and it was an inappropriate painting) and slept with the painter, who Abbie thinks is her father (not the man her mother married).

(This is random, but whenever I think of Jack the Ripper, I think of the characters in Black Butler who were Jack the Ripper.)

My Rating: 3 stars
The author's website is here.

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