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Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach

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kitausu's review

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challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book isn't my normal genre, but I am absolutely in love with it. The voice of the narrator feels so intimate you can't help but be drawn in to her story, her feelings, her life. I loved everything about this. 
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clairebonney's review against another edition

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emotional sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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drbrizzlybear's review

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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tormerritt's review

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emotional reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.5

Summary:
"An unconventional love story between two broken people who are unexplainably, inconveniently drawn to each other, and a wry, sharply observant coming of age story that looks at the ways the people we love the most continue to shape our lives long after they’re gone."

Thoughts:
A short, but profound, and emotional read with a fantastic narrator. I've read unconventional love stories before and they are never done quite right, but this was beautifully written. I felt my heart break along with the characters'. A beautiful, raw example of a coming to age story involving love and loss. It's a simple story, but had a huge impact on me. If you ever experienced love, heartbreak, or loss of a loved one... this will move you, and you'll resonate with it. This book will hold a special spot in my heart for a long time to come. I can't stop thinking about it. Just an absolutely gorgeous book overall. 

Thank you Netgalley, Alison Espach, Jesse Vilinsky, and MacMillan Audio for the Audiobook eARC. All opinions are my own!
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mschwa1118's review

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emotional reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Notes On Your Sudden Disappearance was unlike anything I have read before. While a fictional story, it was a very raw depiction of grief and it’s impact. Content warnings include a serious car accident, grief of a child/sibling/SO, and suicide attempts. This book is written in the voice of Sally, who is directly speaking to her deceased sister Kathy throughout. Sally’s grief is prominently discussed, as is her mom’s, her dad’s, and the character Billy, who was Kathy’s high school boyfriend at the time of her death. Sally also very specifically details the kind of rapport she had with her sister prior to her death, and the experiences the had together. This gave a really interesting viewpoint of grief, and how the grief of others can really impede your own; even if unintentional. My only major issue with the book was that the last 50 pages felt like a detachment from the story, a really different and dragged out tone. And there were some parts that I didn’t feel added to the story. All and all, this was a great read 
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