The Name of the Star Maureen Johnson A Jack the Ripper story set in modern London, how could you not be intrigued? I wish I didn’t read this in the middle of the night where every single sound was amplified and my scared self didn’t have to freak out so much. Maureen Johnson wrote a hauntingly beautiful story about a transfer student from Louisiana, Rory Deveaux, and her start at a boarding school in London.  I was so so thrilled at the end of the book, because I knew it was going to be a part of a series. I wanted to know what happened next, because there will be a cliffhanger at the end, there, I said it! You will want to read the next book, even if its ten times creepier than the first one.  And I also loved that Doctor Who reference. Like, really. This book! Amazing. The only thing that I probably didn’t like as much was the whole Rory-Jerome thing. I felt like that there wasn’t enough to go with it. I can picture Rory with Stephen, but not with Jerome.  This was the quote that I really, really liked: “Fear can’t hurt you. When it washes over you, give it no power. It’s a snake with no venom.”

The Name of the Star

Maureen Johnson

A Jack the Ripper story set in modern London, how could you not be intrigued? I wish I didn’t read this in the middle of the night where every single sound was amplified and my scared self didn’t have to freak out so much. Maureen Johnson wrote a hauntingly beautiful story about a transfer student from Louisiana, Rory Deveaux, and her start at a boarding school in London. 

I was so so thrilled at the end of the book, because I knew it was going to be a part of a series. I wanted to know what happened next, because there will be a cliffhanger at the end, there, I said it! You will want to read the next book, even if its ten times creepier than the first one. 

And I also loved that Doctor Who reference. Like, really. This book! Amazing.

The only thing that I probably didn’t like as much was the whole Rory-Jerome thing. I felt like that there wasn’t enough to go with it. I can picture Rory with Stephen, but not with Jerome. 

This was the quote that I really, really liked:

“Fear can’t hurt you. When it washes over you, give it no power. It’s a snake with no venom.”

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