Stalking Jack the Ripper (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #1) in Turn of a Page

Nov 14, 2020 Laura ☾ rated it liked it

I really wished I liked this more than I had. The premise was interesting, but somehow there was just something missing!

The pacing was very very slow to start, and somehow the characters felt like they lacked depth.

I will still pick up the sequel I think out of curiosity though!

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Feb 11, 2020 HeatherH rated it really liked it

This was a lot of fun! Slow to begin, but I soon fell in love with Audrey Rose and Thomas Cresswell. Their banter and blooming romance was entertaining and I look forward to seeing how it develops more as the series progresses.

I wasn't entirely surprised by the big reveal, or the reasons behind it. There were enough clues given throughout that I suspected it by time the twist occurred.

Narration on the audio was 5 stars! ...more

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Sep 30, 2019 Emma rated it really liked it

Shelves: historical-mystery, historical-fiction, british-hf, ya, horror

4.5 stars a very well done take on Jack the Ripper and a feisty young heroine determined to buck the Victorian expectations for lady like behaviour. Handsome yet irritating love interest, gruesome details plus a careful selection of photos.

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Nov 22, 2016 Lindsay♫SingerOfStories♫ rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: 2016-reads, wobble16

Please don't hate me. I was really looking forward to this one and then to me, this was just a flop. "Audrey Rose"/"Wadsworth" was so snobby and easily offended it just drove me insane. Thomas was okay but his character seemed shallow to me. Took me forever to read because I was BORED. I got into the ending a little bit, and the asylum visit was a bit exciting. But otherwise...meh. If this was just a first in series, I really, really, really, REALLY hope this picks up. I like the premise but MAN ...more

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Sep 24, 2017 Jamie (TheRebelliousReader) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: annoying-hero, completed-series, was-expecting-more, 3-stars, annoying-heroine, young-adult, dark, from-my-shelf, historical, look-at-the-pretty-cover

3 stars. I’m conflicted on this one. It wasn’t terrible in any sense of the word but I was definitely disappointed and wanted so much more than what it delivered.

I’ll start with the things that I did like. The writing was pretty decent, not the best, but still good. The setting and time period was intriguing and easily my favorite aspect of the book. I loved how gory this was and that the author wasn’t afraid to go there. It was pretty brutal which was awesome. The pictures spread throughout the 3 stars. I’m conflicted on this one. It wasn’t terrible in any sense of the word but I was definitely disappointed and wanted so much more than what it delivered.

I’ll start with the things that I did like. The writing was pretty decent, not the best, but still good. The setting and time period was intriguing and easily my favorite aspect of the book. I loved how gory this was and that the author wasn’t afraid to go there. It was pretty brutal which was awesome. The pictures spread throughout the book were awesome and a lot of them were disturbing which I loved. It definitely helped the overall vibe of the book and I thought they were a nice touch. The plot was interesting even though I felt like that took a backseat to the ‘romance’ a lot unfortunately.

For the things I didn’t like, I totally guessed who Jack the Ripper was early on in the book so by the time it was revealed, I was completely underwhelmed. I really didn’t care for the heavy handedness of feminism in this. It never ever felt genuine. It was so forced and pulled me out of the story at times. Like, I get it, girl, you’re not like the other girls in your time period. You’re ‘independent’ and ‘strong’. Shut up now you special little snowflake.

I didn’t like the characters. At all.

Audrey was annoying as hell. She was selfish and I absolutely hated how she never saw what was actually happening in front of her because she was so damn naive. Also, she spent entirely too much time fawning over Thomas.

Thomas was infuriating. He was a try hard, one dimensional character and I hated him. I didn’t get why Audrey was so smitten with him and it was annoying having to not only hear from her how smart and swoony Thomas is but to hear it from Thomas as well made me want to scream. The only Sherlock Holmes type of character that I like is Sherlock Holmes himself thank you very much.

Overall, I’ll more than likely read the sequel mainly because of the Dracula element. Hopefully there will be some actual character development included in it as well. ...more

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