Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

3 reviews

cassie7e's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

Chilly and a fragile stillness like Fargo, but with more emotional development and  attachment to characters. Every chapter is a different character's POV, exploring the lives of so many people tangentially related to the backdrop of the missing girls. Some are just related by existing in the same town. This makes the world feel peopled and deeply real, not just about who matters to specific storyline but acknowledging all the storylines that exist concurrently and tangle up and affect each other. This book also closely intertwines peninsular culture and politics and sense of place, which I appreciated as someone who has not read much Russian literature (either author or setting).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Misogyny, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Kidnapping, Infidelity, Medical content, and Racism

Minor: Emotional abuse, Xenophobia, Sexual content, and Homophobia

scifi_rat's review

reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual content, Homophobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Child abuse, Alcohol, Confinement, Cursing, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Violence, Ableism, Infertility, Lesbophobia, Domestic abuse, Xenophobia, Death, and Infidelity

nikexistiertnik's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexual content, Death, Kidnapping, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Homophobia, Ableism, Alcohol, and Infidelity

Minor: Infertility and Cancer