A review by elviebird
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

dark reflective tense slow-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

3.5

 Beautifully written, but disjointed. I feel like several of the chapters could have been cut out but she needed 12 to make a whole year. If this had been a book of short stories centered around Kamchatka without the kidnapping subplot, it still would have been missing something…. The female “mains” were flat, one note, and mostly unlikeable. I felt no connection to any of them with the possible exception of Marina (the mom). The kidnapping basically frames the stories and keeps the reader invested.