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The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands by Jon Billman
4 reviews
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.
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.
Graphic: Death, Child death, and Mental illness
Moderate: Grief, Murder, and Suicide
Minor: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcoholism
charlatte_lee's review
adventurous
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.25
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.
Moderate: Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicide
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.
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Death
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