I was provided a copy of this book through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
In Ripped, Katie Lennox is living with her grandmother in England, after her parents are killed in car accident, while her older sister Courtney is making a life for herself as a rock singer in America.
Katie and her cousin Collin, along with his friend Toby, go to view the Jack the Ripper exhibit at Madame Tussaud's. After she takes her tour, she goes and touches the London Stone which is said to have mystical powers and then finds herself taken back to Victorian London to the time when the Ripper was stalking the streets and she feels she must find a way to stop the madman. But can she do it? Should she do it? If she does, what will the consequences be?
Ripped is a nice young-adult novel that speculates on the idea of what would happen if a young girl travels back in time and helps to stop one of the most infamous serial killers in history.
The author did a nice job of dealing with the problems that a modern day young woman would have trying to fit into Victorian society and the differences in language and social expectations were clearly drawn, though I was never clear why people seemed to refer to the Duke as Sir Gideon, everything else struck me as accurate. I quite liked the portrayal of Oscar Wilde and the painter Whistler; they were brought to life nicely.
Over all, I considered this an enjoyable and informative read. Some license was taken with historical details and, of course, the identity of the Ripper has never been determined. But as in any speculative fiction, there is no harm in supposing.
With Regards,
Kirsten
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