I loved that Hallie offered a new twist on what has been an exhausting volume of Jack the Ripper books. It is emotive and treats these women empathetically in a way a lot of Ripper works don't. This book is extremely well researched and provides a detailed history of these women. It also offers an amazing look into the Working Class lives of women in the Victorian period, their lives, and their struggles. Although this book is not about finding out who Jack the Ripper was, it's about finding out who the victims were, I think that this research found the victims had a lot more in common with each other than just being potential prostitutes. Making me think Jack could have been a worker at the 'Work Houses', someone who hated 'Drinking Women', or even someone who thought these women were self-destructive and 'punished' them. This is all interesting as this much research into the victims has not been done before. However, this is not a 5 star for me, as there is a blurring of fact and fiction. The author creates a great engaging story, but this is done by adding in a lot of assumptions and artistic license. She expresses the thoughts, feelings, and subjects of conversation that there is no historical record of. I think this should have been promoted as more of a fact/fiction blended book instead of as a Non-fiction and it would have got 5 stars, similar to Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year. But the respect of the victims is beautiful.