Five reasons why "Stalking Jack the Ripper" isn't feminist

Before u start reading, this is a criticism is based of the first book alone due to the fact that I don't care enough to finish the whole series and this does contain spoilers.

Every single victim is female

Now, the reason for this is because the novel written by Kerri Maniscalo is based on true events that occurred in the 19th century, which is already rocky territory. For me, taking real life murders and fictionalizing them is not going to end well. At the end of the day we're talking about real life people and if an account is going to be written, it needs to remain completely factual to the story. Did she do this? Nope. But that's another story.

Anyway, my issue with the murders isn't the fact that they're all female, it's how they're all portrayed. To me it's very much, "I'm the damsel in distress waiting for men to save me."

Uhh, women who follow societies exceptions (female resentment)

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This highlights two of my points. The first being the way she portrays her aunt. She is painted as being a pesk and downright stupid.
The MC (Audrey Rose) doesn't take anytime to understand her aunt's perspective, just gets frustrated about her "girlishness." At the end of the day, at the time, if you were to step out of line, your family name would be tarnished and women were constantly being forced into things they didn't want to do. Instead of blaming society, or hey, maybe even respecting what her aunt enjoys, she's just painted as being annoying for being female. This is also in contrast to her uncle, who is perceived by many as a mad man, and yet she loves and admires him.

The other thing is how distinct her hatred for the young ladies at the tea party is so prominent and yet there in it for all of five seconds. Before meeting them, she already hates them just for wearing dresses and being born female.

I need men's approval to feel validated

In life, this is very common. It's not something that you need to be ashamed of however it's something you need to learn to let go. In the book however, this never changes. She is always trying to win Thomas's approval, her uncles approval, and her farther's acceptance. As I said before, that's completely natural but it's portrayed as not being a problem. Like "OMG, I'm so amazing, but why don't all the men in my life think so. Now Imma gonna go prove it to them" Then she goes of sulking.

Where are the women???????????????????????

It gives me very "hunger games" vibes in that sense. It's like the main character's female so all the rest can be men. 🤨 Bitch no. And on top of this, most of the women who are lucky enough to get a word in are painted as being too female. WEARING DRESSES DOESN'T MEAN YOU AIN'T A FEMINIST. Regaurdless are we getting the point here?

If not, then I'm gonna spell it out, this is not a feminist novel despite being portrayed as one.