By Maureen Johnson
Summary:
The day Louisiana
teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London marks a memorable occasion. For
Rory, it's the start of a new life at a London boarding school. But for
many, this will be remembered as the day a series of brutal murders
broke out across the city, gruesome crimes mimicking the horrific Jack
the Ripper events of more than a century ago.
Soon “Rippermania”
takes hold of modern-day London, and the police are left with few leads
and no witnesses. Except one. Rory spotted the man police believe to be
the prime suspect. But she is the only one who saw him. Even her
roommate, who was walking with her at the time, didn't notice the
mysterious man. So why can only Rory see him? And more urgently, why has
Rory become his next target? In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, full
of suspense, humor, and romance, Rory will learn the truth about the
secret ghost police of London and discover her own shocking abilities.
My Thoughts:
I loved this book, and I absolutely did not want to put it down.
The premise was intriguing from the start, and it lived up to my pre-reading hopes.
Now to give you all fair warning, when you tell someone that the book you are reading has 'Jack the Ripper' in it, you are going to get more than a few funny looks.
Now would be an appropriate(or not... depending how easily fiction can sway you) time of year to read this book, what with going back to school paralleling Rory's transition to London boarding school.
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Summery:
When Ginny receives thirteen little blue envelopes and instructions to buy a plane ticket to London, she knows something exciting is going to happen. What Ginny doesn't know is that she will have the adventure of her life and it will change her in more ways than one. Life and love are waiting for her across the Atlantic, and the thirteen little blue envelopes are the key to finding them in this funny, romantic, heartbreaking novel.
My Review:
I loved this book!
Ginny's aunt has died, but Ginny soon receives 13 little blue envelopes from her, each with a task to complete. The trick is Ginny is not aloud to open the next envelope until she has completed the task she has been given. This means she is being lead blindly through Europe by her wildly eccentric(and dead) aunt.
There is always something about adventure in the unknown that intrigues me. The way Ginny follows her aunt's instructions, even when her requests seem completely unreasonable and impossible, she treks through and ends up learning more about herself than she ever could have by staying inside her safe little boring box.
My favourite character would definitely have to be Aunt Peg. Even though she is completely dead when the novel begins, and remains so through out the entirety of the book, she is an essential living breathing part of the of the story.
Each letter reveals a bit more of who she was, and how she saw the world.
The people she introduces Ginny to along the way are hilarious and entertaining.
I'm not going to lie, I might have cried a bit at the end.
But it was a good cry.
This books could has the potential to be something of a downer, but the way Ginny triumphs through her own battles along the way, give it enough hope and heart to make it fabulous.
It was the perfect mixture of happy and sad.
This would be a great book to read in the Summer, or on some sort of vacation.
But it's also wonderful to read when you need to bring a bit of adventure back into everyday life.
This is a book I would love to own.
It's one of those stories I think is worth pulling off the shelf every once and awhile.
