We picked this book up based on the blurb - I know, I know, a mistake we've made time and time again. This time the book lived up to the blurb.
"Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life.
Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers brings her close to her own sheltered world."
Basically, Audrey Rose is performing autopsies with her uncle to learn about the human body with hopes of studying medicine but ends up helping to track down Jack the Ripper. There is a light romance but it keeps true to the period and is very clean. After all, how can you really fall in love with any guy when there's a brilliant serial killer on the loose?
It's marketed as teen horror but Autumn and I didn't find anything over the top though some of the descriptions are a little graphic so if you have a good imagination and you're squeamish you may struggle with a few parts. The writing was clean and the story kept us both engaged. As far as teen lit goes, this one is tough to beat. I caution people to remember that this is a TEEN book and as such it's not going to compete with general fiction books that play by far different rules.
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