Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands by Jon Billman

9 reviews

amelia_horseman's review

adventurous challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Suicide

abby_can_read's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

3.0

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This was an interesting book. I liked the narrator. This book was well researched. It was hard to follow at times with the different stories.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Grief, Murder, and Suicide

Minor: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcoholism

hello_summertea's review against another edition

informative reflective sad fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

sylvestra's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative mysterious medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Suicide and Religious bigotry

charlatte_lee's review

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Animal death, Suicide, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcoholism

besha's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I love true crime but have a short attention span for nonfiction, and will never finish a whole book on, say, Lizzie Borden. I finished this book in two sittings. Billman weaves disparate stories within a framework of the search for Jacob Gray, along the way delving into dog trailing, psychics, backcountry hiking, cults, extreme condition searches, Bigfoot, and the legal and political issues around missing persons. Highly recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicide

icfasntw's review

challenging dark mysterious sad slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, Mental illness, and Medical trauma

This book features scenes and sections discussing death by exposure in hot and cold temperatures.

moontiaras's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Murder, and Mental illness

thatsssorachael's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

2.5

I thought this would be like every chapter told a one or two stories of someone disappearing from that geographical area. Instead it really followed Jacob Gray's story (mostly his father's story, to be fair), and a few other notable missing persons were thrown in. The Hawaii chapter and the Hoh Lake chapter were my favourites, and the last quote from Randy Gray will stick with me for a long time.

That being said, this book was repetitive. There was a LOT of big foot and psychics discussions, which I don't like in my non-fiction/true crime/missing persons cases. I also found it very apparent how each chapter was written separately as some later chapters had info that would have been helpful much earlier in the book. 

I don't really know how to sum it up. Did I like it? Bits and pieces. Did I dislike it? Not all of it. I felt disappointed as I think it was marketed improperly, but that's not the author or book's fault. 

I don't think I'd recommend this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death