Every Hour Until Then is a complete triumph of a book. The story takes place in two eras. The main character lives in both simultaneously and swaps when she falls asleep. I wasn’t sure I’d enjoy a plot set around Jack the Ripper but this was hugely compelling. In one time Kathryn works hard to uncover the Ripper’s identity and prevent him claiming his last victim, in the other she’s curating an exhibition about this awful crimes.

There are so many things I liked about this story. The top thing is the plot. The two eras weave together seamlessly and create a gripping overarching journey that kept me up until far too late because I had to know the ending. Would Kathryn stop the killer? Which time would she choose to stay in?

Secondly, the research that the author must have done shone through with the astonishing details of the Ripper case. The attention to detail made the story so much more compelling. And finally, the whole timeshiftimg concept is brilliant and the implications of there only being a fifty year gap in the two timelines made me gasp at several points in the story. Something that doesn’t happen often.

I received a copy of Every Hour Until Then from the publisher via NetGalley. The all out fangirling is completely my own.