emilieeisenberg's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
sad
fast-paced
3.75
Don’t normally reach for non fiction but this flowed really well. Super sad and I learned a lot.
catreader18's review against another edition
3.0
This true crime book examines the murders of woman in Ireland, especially in the 1990’s. It’s the first true crime book I’ve read but no the first by this author. It was Interesting to read the fiction and non fiction books. It also brought to my attention the terrible treatment of woman and people in Ireland either through laws or society’s expectations of them. Victim blaming, police not investigating immediately are just a few of the unjustices. It makes me appreciate todays technology with CCTV and cell phones. This was a very eye opening book.
positivelybooked's review against another edition
5.0
O M G
These cases have been on my mind for a while after hearing about them through different podcasts. While I thought this was just going to be about the cases, I wasn’t expecting to hear the potential reasoning as to why they haven’t been found yet. I feel like I just gained knowledge that I never would have.
These cases have been on my mind for a while after hearing about them through different podcasts. While I thought this was just going to be about the cases, I wasn’t expecting to hear the potential reasoning as to why they haven’t been found yet. I feel like I just gained knowledge that I never would have.
wynonnar's review against another edition
1.0
Dnf at 59%
While the idea of these cases are very interesting, this book is more a rambling of the atrocities that happened in Ireland which is important to know but the cases of the vanishing women seems like an after thought. It reads more like a journal of the authors thoughts about the information she learned and not a real dive about the "vanishing triangle" and the women that suffered in that systemic turmoil.
While the idea of these cases are very interesting, this book is more a rambling of the atrocities that happened in Ireland which is important to know but the cases of the vanishing women seems like an after thought. It reads more like a journal of the authors thoughts about the information she learned and not a real dive about the "vanishing triangle" and the women that suffered in that systemic turmoil.
nbub123's review against another edition
2.0
I did not like the writing style of this book, it was a stream of consciousness of facts and the same reiterations of themes and what the author was trying to prove. I wish it was organized by missing person going more deeply into their lives rather just pure speculation of what happened to them over and over again.
britgirlreading's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Rape, War, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Murder, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Violence, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, and Drug use
agustinap's review against another edition
3.0
The Vanishing Triangle is unlike any of Claire McGowan's books. I have to admit that I have not travel to Ireland and knew very little about it; therefore, I was hooked from the Prologue on. McGowan presents us a dark Ireland full of unsolved crimes where the most likely killers is walking the streets, a country that allows religion and the IRA to have a say in who gets prosecuted and who gets a blind eye. Most importantly, it shows how a bias Ireland judges women based on external reason and determine their disappearance are justified.
The amount of research Claire McGowan has done for this book is impressive.
The amount of research Claire McGowan has done for this book is impressive.
damarisr's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
2.0
kecb12's review
2.0
This is a book with a lot of potential, but one that ended up being a lot of lost opportunities. The topic is a popular one right now—true crime, specifically missing women. But the author didn’t seem to have a real focus or central thesis. It was like she wrote a book to share some things that happened in Ireland. There is a lot of assumptive language and so much repetition. She tried her best to give deeper meaning to the stories she was sharing, but that’s where the lost opportunities start. This book could have been such an interesting, insightful, and sharp commentary on Ireland and it’s sociological development, specifically its attitudes toward women. I think that’s what the author thinks she did. But it was mostly a lot of surface commentary and unsubstantiated assumptions. Perhaps most annoying was the number of times she said she didn’t remember these crimes that happened in the 90s (when she was a child), and that this was somehow her central evidence of Ireland’s great indifference toward the crimes she was researching. Just one example of how this was a book more about the author and her ideas and her assumptions and her perspectives than about the bigger topic at hand. Throw in that she’s a fictional crime story author…and it was sort of a mess. A lost opportunity for sure.