But as you get deeper into the book, you will notice thematic threads beginning to weave their way from chapter to chapter. The abduction of the two girls lingers like a spectre throughout the story, always an influence but never a focus. POV characters in some chapters will make cameo appearances in others. Debut author Julia Phillips has an endgame, but Disappearing Earth is less like rafting down a river and more like summiting a series of mountains: each is challenging and rewarding in its own right, and only once you have climbed them all can you truly get a sense of what lies in the landscape below. Each succeeding chapter takes place during one month of the following year these chapters are self-contained stories, each told from the perspective of a different character. Disappearing Earth begins with the abduction of two young girls in Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula.
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