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nerdinthelibrary's Reviews (926)
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Miscellaneous thoughts:
- I had fun.
- I'm happy I figured out who the killer was a couple chapters in, but I don't actually think it was as outrageously obvious as some people say; my suspicions were entirely because I'm paranoid and don't trust certain character types, not any actual evidence (unless I missed something).
- The feminism was mostly annoying. One second Audrey Rose is monologuing that women are just as capable of things as men and are not inherently inferior, the next she's calling other women vapid and saying that she's nothing like them. I liked her relationship with her cousin and her realising other women are people with thoughts, but it didn't feel like she actually changed her perspective. This wasn't helped by the fact that the aunt and cousin are the only other major female characters.
- Making Audrey Rose biracial was a... strange choice. For one, it makes the feminism feel even more hollow; how is it that this half-Indian character feels so passionately about women's equality but has zero thoughts about colonialism of her mother's homeland, something which is actively happening. Not to mention the total lack of racism; I get that Audrey Rose is white-passing but there is literally no mention of racism at all. Really her Indian heritage is only brought up to talk about how nice her skin is which is... uh weird as hell.
- I appreciated the sympathy towards sex workers, even if it did still feel a little disparaging towards sex work itself.
- Anyone complaining about the historical inaccuracies is a buzzkill. This is historical fiction, emphasis on fiction; if I wanted a factual account of Jack the Ripper, I would read nonfiction. Or watch BuzzFeed Unsolved.
- Aside from Audrey Rose suffering from Not-Like-Other-Girls-itis, she was a fine protagonist.
- I went back and forth on Thomas. Sometimes he annoyed me, acting exactly like the male leads I hate who are constantly quipping and being a little rude to their love interest in a way that makes them weak at the knees for some reason (Jace, I'm thinking specifically of Jace). But as the book went on and it becomes clear that he is both hiding some trauma and, more importantly, just genuinely doesn't understand that he sometimes comes across as rude when he's more clinical about things. The romance was also meh for me.
- I've heard the characters, romance and feminism all improve in book two so I'm willing to continue as long as I can listen to the audiobook.
- I had fun.
- I'm happy I figured out who the killer was a couple chapters in, but I don't actually think it was as outrageously obvious as some people say; my suspicions were entirely because I'm paranoid and don't trust certain character types, not any actual evidence (unless I missed something).
- The feminism was mostly annoying. One second Audrey Rose is monologuing that women are just as capable of things as men and are not inherently inferior, the next she's calling other women vapid and saying that she's nothing like them. I liked her relationship with her cousin and her realising other women are people with thoughts, but it didn't feel like she actually changed her perspective. This wasn't helped by the fact that the aunt and cousin are the only other major female characters.
- Making Audrey Rose biracial was a... strange choice. For one, it makes the feminism feel even more hollow; how is it that this half-Indian character feels so passionately about women's equality but has zero thoughts about colonialism of her mother's homeland, something which is actively happening. Not to mention the total lack of racism; I get that Audrey Rose is white-passing but there is literally no mention of racism at all. Really her Indian heritage is only brought up to talk about how nice her skin is which is... uh weird as hell.
- I appreciated the sympathy towards sex workers, even if it did still feel a little disparaging towards sex work itself.
- Anyone complaining about the historical inaccuracies is a buzzkill. This is historical fiction, emphasis on fiction; if I wanted a factual account of Jack the Ripper, I would read nonfiction. Or watch BuzzFeed Unsolved.
- Aside from Audrey Rose suffering from Not-Like-Other-Girls-itis, she was a fine protagonist.
- I went back and forth on Thomas. Sometimes he annoyed me, acting exactly like the male leads I hate who are constantly quipping and being a little rude to their love interest in a way that makes them weak at the knees for some reason (Jace, I'm thinking specifically of Jace). But as the book went on and it becomes clear that he is both hiding some trauma and, more importantly, just genuinely doesn't understand that he sometimes comes across as rude when he's more clinical about things. The romance was also meh for me.
- I've heard the characters, romance and feminism all improve in book two so I'm willing to continue as long as I can listen to the audiobook.
