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Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

10 reviews

scifi_rat's review

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reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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lilifane's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful mysterious reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I can't believe I only read this book because I needed one with "earth" in the title that was preferably short and had a blue cover. Because it is now one of my favorite reads this year, for sure.

I loved this. The setting on the Kamchatka peninsula with its nature and weather descriptions, the short insights into different girls' and women's lives, the common thread of two missing girls connecting every story/POV in one way or another, the other common thread of loss in general, the beautiful writing. I could go on like this forever. It's my favorite kind of novel.

I loved all chapters (except one, which had a trigger for me, so I just skimmed it) and obviously wished they were longer and had more answers. I got attached to so many characters that were mostly never mentioned again. But the way the book was constructed worked perfectly well for me, so I made up my own head canon for the details we never got. And then the last two chapters made an emotional wreck of me. So, in conclusion, this was a perfect book for me.

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flowerowl's review

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emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? N/A
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.75

A hard book to complete for me. Maybe because I found it difficult to ever chaper change from character and setting, yet staying in the same sort of base. I did feel the emotions of the different people and that was well done. I found the ending unsatisfactory, but I guess that go's hand in hand with unsatisfied characters and there ways, emotions, and life's; and so it has something poetical.

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sampadaac's review

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dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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nikexistiertnik's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

i am not okay after finishing this book, reading it affected my whole body and i am incredibly stressed and tense.

that being said, i really enjoyed the way it was written (and the german translation) and having so many different perspectives and characters is a concept i definitely dig.

the ending felt a little weird though

because it seemed like the author just wanted to quickly solve the case in the end to satisfy the reader. don't get me wrong, i was emotionally invested through the whole story and i really loved the writing style in the last chapter (it hurt), but i think having jegor be the kidnapper was kind of an easy way out, although i am happy that the families finally have answers.

i loved learning more about the peninsula, its indigenous people, the culture and politics, which doesn't mean i liked everything i learned, obviously.

although i'm a little sad that we didn't get a lot of time with some of the characters, it was really interesting to read about so many different realities and how these people were (more or less) connected.
thousands of different triggers though, it was really hard to read sometimes.

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luananki's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

i enjoyed the writing of this book a lot. watching different perspectives and learning how the disappearance impacted quite a lot of people was interesting. i loved learning about kamchatka and russian culture, as well as the diversity of the characters. i’m actually sad that we didn’t get the chance to find out more about some of them.

the end felt a bit out of place but i can live with that.

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