My Grandfather Jack The Ripper
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- USD 2.99
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- USD 2.99
Descripción editorial
13-year-old Andy lives in a seedy boarding house in London that has been run by the family for generations - in fact since Jack the Ripper, who murdered his last victim in Room 4. Andy befriends Massimo who is looking for new clues to Jack the Ripper's unsolved crimes, and he becomes involved in an astonishing and bloodcurdling adventure!---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------My Grandfather Jack the Ripper by Claudio Apone will have you full of suspense. A gifted child in present day London named Andy discovers that one of the Jack the Ripper cases happened in a room of the boardinghouse he lives in. Using his powers to tell the past, Andy, an Italian “researcher” named Massimo, and Andy’s best friend Lucy team up to figure out who is the real Jack the Ripper. With Massimo’s help, Andy travels back into the past and finds out who is the unknown murderer. I thought this book was great and it would be perfect for people ages 15 and older.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
With its atmospheric setting and spooky subject matter, this odd story a strong seller in its original Italian edition starts off with a great deal of promise, only to be dragged down by an awkward narrative style and a coincidence-heavy plot. Andy Dobson, 13, lives with his mother and grandfather in the Jack-in-the-Box, the ramshackle guesthouse in London's scruffy East End that the Dobson family has owned for nearly 150 years. A new boarder, Massimo, lets Andy know that the Jack-in-the-Box was the site of Jack the Ripper's final murder. When Massimo discovers that Andy--conveniently enough--has psychic gifts, he suggests exaggerating these powers with the help of a mildly hallucinogenic compound. Bound to an armchair and injected with the drug, Andy travels into the past and witnesses the events surrounding the Ripper's last killing, a crime described in grisly detail. Meanwhile, in the present day, a copycat killer prepares to strike at those near and dear to Andy. The present-tense narration and a stilted (uncredited) translation give the story an unintentionally eccentric quality ("She has secretly decided that she will marry this impudent yet sweet prankster with the freckled face"; "Andy finds him to be looking really very nice in his tweed suit") and undercut Apone's attempts at building suspense. Ages 13-up.
