Ripper: A Novel (P.S. (Paperback))

from Twink

Isabel Allende's Island Beneath the Sea is one of my favourite books. (my review) I think she's brilliant when it comes to writing historical fiction. Her last novel, Maya's Notebook, (my review) was a contemporary piece with a teenage protagonist. Ripper is Allende's latest novel and is again se...

from TheLostEntwife

Let me start this review by saying that when I went to add Ripper to my Goodreads "currently reading" list, I was dismayed to see the plethora of low star ratings. I couldn't understand it - surely it was a bunch of people who didn't know what they were talking about. You see, this is not my firs...

from karynmilk

While this book was very well written, it was just not my cup of tea. I tend to lose interest when the story is too segmented between characters. I found this to be true in Ripper. I was also disappointed in there being little about the murders and the gaming group and much more about each charac...

from PennyAnne

I was very disappointed by this book. Allende is one of my favourite authors and I was really interested to see what she would do with a "murder mystery" type of story. Unfortunately the novel is good in places but mainly turgid and boring. I kept reading because I wanted to know who 'did' it and...

from ozzer

This novel had an engaging plot involving a series of murders that were being treated as separate cases by the police, but considered to be serial by a group of amateurs. The characters were mostly stereotypes (e.g., new-age healer, teenager, divorced husband, wounded warrior, doting grandfather,...