Hi there! We are getting into the start of week five and I was thrilled when I heard that there was an option to do a book review! As you probably guessed , that’s what I’m going to be talking about today!

My current favourite book is one called “The Devil’s Workshop” (TDW) by Alex Grecian. Alex Grecian is the author of “the Yard” (TY) which is a bestselling novel and also happens to be the prequel of “the Devils Workshop”. You don’t actually need to read TY before TDW though because it makes sense whether or not you read TY. I read TDW first which then introduced me to TY.

The Devils workshop is set about one year after Jack the Ripper’s rein and is about what would happen if Jack the Ripper was actually caught, but not by the police. Instead he was caught by an origination who believes in a different kind of justice which involves the criminal being put through what their victims felt. In this sense Jack the Ripper was caught and was tortured for about a year. This story started when that very organization planned to “move” 4 convicts to an their place of retribution. This is where they are holding Jack the Ripper captive. Their plan goes awry and ends with 4 convicts on the loose. The police get involved to try and capture these villains. One of the main detectives on the case, Detective Day Walter, is families with one of the convicts because he was the first criminal Day caught. Consequently, this convict knows where Day lives and now he is trying to catch all 4 criminals before one of them kills his pregnant wife.

If you enjoy murder mysteries or you are interested the third book is the harvest man:

I would give this book a 5/5. I think that the author does a great job with using words in a way that keeps the readers on their toes and keeps the pages turning. It really depicts Jack the Ripper as this crazy and dangerous criminal and I think that that was incredible. He also managed to write the book while changing to different perspectives and still keeping the book on track and relevant. This is an amazing book that I highly recommend but I would like to warn readers that some of the details in the book are a bit gruesome so this book is for a mature audience. Please keep this in mind if you would like to read the book. If you do read it please leave a comment down below on what you thought about the book. I will close with a poem from the book:

 

Push me down and shut my box,

And twist my arm about.

And listen to my merry tune.

I’ll soon be coming out.

 

Push me down again, dear Childe,

I’m safely hid away.

But I’m not gone; it wont be long

Till Jack comes out to play.

-Rupert Winthrop, “Jack In the Box,” from

London Town Rhymes for the Nursery (1893)