Ripper in Around the World in 80 Books

Apr 08, 2020 Pam rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: crime-fiction, 2020-books-read, california, audio-book

AUTHOR Allende, Isabel
TITLE Ripper
DATE READ 04/07/20
RATING 4/B
FIRST SENTENCE
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Fiction/2014/audio; hoopla/ 14 hr 30 min
SERIES/STAND-ALONE SA
CHALLENGE Good Reads 2020 Reading Goal 57/120;
GROUP READ
TIME/PLACE 2014/California
CHARACTERS Indiana/ reiki therapist; daughter Amanda/ teenage sleuth obsessed with Ripper and crime fiction novels
COMMENTS I really liked this … the setting was a big allure since I had just been in Napa Co and Bay area last month. So like ...more

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Oct 23, 2016 Anna rated it it was ok

I was very disappointed in this book. I greatly admire this author but this book did not come any where near to anything she has previously written. Very average.

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Oct 22, 2022 Julie Griffin rated it really liked it

Just finished Ripper, by Isabel Allende, translated by Frank Wynne. Popped up on my library suggestions and I figured it was a good hybrid for Halloween month and Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month in the U.S. Written after All ends moved to the U.S. and married a detective fiction author, Ripper began as a collaboration between the couple but when that proved an experiment that didn't work, Allende took on Ripper on her own. This is a characters driven book you'd expect from this author, with a sur ...more

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Jan 19, 2014 Jenifer rated it liked it

Shelves: thriller, 2014-read

I love Isabelle Allende. I mean, I really LOVE Allende. She is always near the top of my list of favorite authors. It’s been years since I’ve read any of her books (I binge read them in college). Her writing is beautiful, it’s magical. Two of my all-time favorite novels are by Allende, Of Love and Shadows
and The House of the Spirits. Allende’s writing is so poetic and so magical that her works are often used as examples of magical realism in literature classes around the world. That is the Allen ...more

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Oct 29, 2015 Kathleen Valentine marked it as to-read

Shelves: gave-up

I am struggling with this. The characters are interesting but the writing is cliche ridden and, frankly, not up to her usual standard. I think I am giving up.

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