2.5
The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories
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MAXIM JAKUBOWSKI is a London-based novelist and editor. He was born in the UK and educated in France. Following a career in book publishing, he opened the world-famous Murder One bookshop in London. He now writes full-time. He has edited many acclaimed crime collections, and over twenty bestselling erotic anthologies and books on erotic photography. His novels include It's You That I Want to Kiss, Because She Thought She Loved Me and On Tenderness Express, all three collected and reprinted in the USA as Skin in Darkness. Other books include Life in the World of Women, The State of Montana, Kiss Me Sadly, Confessions of a Romantic Pornographer, I Was Waiting for You, Ekaterina and the Night, American Casanova and his collected short stories Fools for Lust. He compiles two annual acclaimed series for the Mammoth list: Best New Erotica and Best British Crime. He is a winner of the Anthony and the Karel Awards, a frequent TV and radio broadcaster, a past crime columnist for the Guardian newspaper and Literary Director of London's Crime Scene Festival. In recent years, he has authored under a pen-name a series of Sunday Times bestselling erotic romance novels which have sold over two million copies and been sold to 22 countries, and translated the acclaimed French novel Monsieur by Emma Becker.
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2.5
“The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories really is mammoth. With nearly forty stories about the mysterious serial killer, this book had it's ups and downs. Some stories were interesting and but frustratingly short, which is probably why I hardly ever read short story collections. Some stories were down right boring, and I have to admit, I skipped a few of them after only a few sentences. Notable mentions include Bertie by Barbara Nadel, which immerses you in the 1800's and The Ripper Legacy by John Moralee, which is a modern retelling of the fear and trepidation the killer inspired. Unfortunately, the bad stories outweighed the good, making this a below average read.”
“The individual stories were simply too short and there wasn't anything for me to really sink my teeth into. I enjoyed the first few and then lost interest after that.
I found it very confusing that the same characters were mentioned in numerous stories but in different contexts. I found this very confusing and ultimately off-putting.”
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