This book is written so that each chapter is a month from the perspective of a different woman in town. There are odd dialogues where it sounds like someone is making a joke, but it's not clear why it's funny or who said what. There are sentences where the meaning is unclear, so I have to read it multiple times to understand. The writing is somewhat stilted and awkward. Unfortunately, that is the part I was most looking forward to. So to go into this book thinking it is a mystery of any sort would be mistaken. It was mostly a bunch of hearsay on the part of gossipy townspeople and inaction/incompetence on the part of the police. Except what I got isn't what I expected.įirst, there was no investigation depicted in this book. The premise of this book is interesting enough: two young girls disappear from a Russian town, which sends the the townspeople reeling over the next few months as the investigation turns up nothing. Everything that others loved about this book are all the same reasons I don't. I think this is a case of mismatched expectations. But it pretty much disappointed me from beginning to end. I had high hopes going into Disappearing Earth as I had heard so many great things about it.
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