Language: PG (17 swears 0 'f') Mature Content: PG (One kiss, flirting); Violence: PG-13 (Grisly and gory descriptions of autopsies and murders)
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - ESSENTIAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL - HIGH
17yo Audrey Rose is a girl growing up in the late nineteenth century London where she should be attending social teas and soirees. However, rather than being concerned with embroidery and dress fittings, she prefers to spend time in her uncle's laboratory studying the dead. Through their work, Audrey Rose and her uncle will begin exploring the grisly Ripper murders with the help of the Sherlockian 18yo Thomas Cresswell. In the growing panic of Victorian London, Audrey Rose will have to tolerate Thomas's unceasing flirtations and annoying brilliance so that they can solve the case of the Ripper before more unfortunate women are murdered.
I adore this book. It has beautiful, immersive writing and fun, loveable characters. The romance is sub-plot (but definitely still there) and they have the kind of relationship where they compliment each other and each solve parts of the case that the other couldn't, the perfect romance in my opinion. Not only that, but the author obviously put in a lot of time researching the real events and facts to make this story really come to life. If anyone is familiar with the case, there were some terribly grotesque slaughters and this book does not pull its punches describing them. All characters are white and upper-class.
Sierra Finlinson
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