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My friend recommended The Name of the Star to me when I was on the hunt for books to read. I was stuck in a reading stupor, unsure of what to read. To be honest, it took me around 10 months to finally get around to reading this book. However, I feel it was definitely worth the wait.
The Name of the Star is about a girl named Rory who moves to London from Louisiana her senior year of high school and begins to attend a boarding school there. On her first day in London, recreations of the Jack the Ripper murders begin. One night while Rory and her friends are awaiting the next murder to begin, she encounters a man she can see but her friend cannot. At the police interrogation, she meets another man who interrogates her but does not seem to be a policeman. She learns she is more connected to the murders than she could ever think.
All in all, this book is a fast read and a very entertaining. It takes many turns and I appreciate Maureen Johnson’s attempts to catch her audience off guard, but every twist seemed very blatant and obvious much before it was revealed. The book borders on cheesy every so often, and some scenes should not have been as grossly descriptive as they were, but it does not take back from the enjoyableness of this book. This book is definitely one of the lighter books on this list of books (surprisingly so, considering it deals with murders.) On a number scale, I’d give this a 3.7/5. It’s not a bad book. However, the fact that I predicted almost every twist did take away from the excitement and thrill and it did border on cliche fairly often.
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