The Disappearances

The Killables #2

by Gemma Malley

It's been a year since Evie and Raffy escaped the controlling regime of the City, leaving Lucas behind to rebuild the ruins of the place they once called home. And Lucas knew that once he said goodbye, Evie would be lost to him forever...

But the City soon finds itself plagued by another terrifying threat: the Disappearances: teenagers who have gone missing from within the City walls, apparently vanishing into thin air. With the City at stake, Lucas has no choice but to call on his old friends - even if seeing them together is more than he can bear.

Genres: Young Adult, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Ebooks

414 pages, Paperback

First published April 25, 2013

About the author

Gemma Malley studied Philosophy at Reading University before working as a journalist. She edited several business magazines and contributed regularly to Company magazine and the Sunday Telegraph before moving into the Civil Service in a senior communications role at Ofsted. The Declaration, her first novel for a teenage audience, and its sequel, The Resistance, were published to critical acclaim. She lives in South London.

Reviews

[Chloe Reads Books · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wasn't a big fan! The story went a completely different direction to where I expected it to go (not in a good way?). But I did really enjoy the character developments!
It felt like a completely different story, and completely different characters from book number one. But as I said, the character growth from the start to the end of this particular book was really good (they just weren't the same characters as book 1 I'm sure!)

[Paperback Mo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Quite boring, dragged quite a bit, could have been shorter..

[Marcia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ik vond The Disappearances iets minder goed vond dan haar voorganger. Het voelde een beetje als een tussen-boek, om het verhaal tussen boek één en boek drie te overbruggen. Ik vind het bovendien erg jammer dat het verhaal zich grotendeels buiten de stad afspeelt, waardoor je juist de originaliteit van deze world building mist. Maar, de cliffhanger belooft een hoop goeds voor het volgende boek.

Lees mijn complete review op Oog op de Toekomst!

[Charlotte · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm sorry I just did no enjoy this book at all. I found the whole plot boring and characters unbearable! And Raffy he was so contolling of Evie and he was in the first book.
"Just wait till everybody sees once and for all that your mine"

RUN EVIE RUN

Really the only Character I liked was Lucas.

So overall I did not like this book one bit. I think one of the main issues with this book is that it had such potentiality to be a great story but sadly he Characters did not seem real enough and were just annoying and that plot was to slow and jumpy.

[anna marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Got dull and long winded by the end. Team Lucas though 5EVA. (2.5 Stars I think?)

[Jonique · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't really know what to say about this book. this authour has the mist intresting ideas just when you think she is doing the same old dystopian novel. boom wrong.

[Tamara · Rating 2 out of 5]

Stupid, selfish, and possessive Raffy.

[Inês · Rating 5 out of 5]

Actually this book is so much BETTER than the first one. Better plot and finally some character development.

Oh did i've told you that this book reminds me of sereveral others?
like

1984: THE BIG BROTHER... there is a character called Brother who is in charge of the city. he knows EVERYTHING that his people do. just like that idea of the Big Brother in 1984. Not only. Now appears this one that... jezzzzz you'll see. his name is Thomas

Brave new world: utopic society that makes all people become passive persons because when they are passive are easy to control. In killables people are let to belive, by labeling them from A to D (then K), that they are good people if do as they told, that other things are evil and they shouldn't let it enter themselves.

Delirium: Love is a disease... in Killables there are this two characters named Raffy and Evie...they shouldn't be togheter, and this is seen as a "disease" that they have... something like that.

Matched: you are matched to people from the beginning of your live... even if you don't know who they are. in Matched the girl is actually matched with someone hse knows, but doesn't love him... In killables Evie is matched with other person, Lucas, but she loves the other guy.

Divergent: in divergent (SPOILERS) peoplearegeneticalymodifiedtroughalltheyearstobelessselfishviolentwhateverpersons(END OF SPOILERS) In Killables (SPOILERS)theyremovetheamygdalafromyourbraintomakeyoustopbeingevilbutthatdoesntwork(END OF SPOILERS)

Clockwork orange: they want to remove evil from the protagonist in clockwork orange right? well in here the societty wants to do that.




first of all FORGET ABOUT raffy or Lucas... LINUS TOTALLY ROCKS XDD

SPOILERS A HEAD PLEASE DO NO READ UNLESS YOU WANT SPOILERS XDD and a rollercoater of feelings T^T

raffy becomes totally obsessive with Evie, making him such a over controling, manipulative, stobborn, UNBEARABLE person. So much that he completly can stand the idea of having this old brother, Lucas, that had always faked his emotions and did whatever it took to protect his brother, bein in love with the same girl and probably the girl would drop him and choose lucas over him... GAHHHHH can't you see that the way you act, bastard, is why people don't wnat to be with you and sutff? GAHHHH and then just because of that paranoic manners YOU BETRAYED YOUR FRIENDS!!!!! WHYYYYY DUDE WHYYYY
ok evie made up with your brother BUT THATS BECAUSE YOU CAN'T FREAKING LIVE without being such a controll freak PLUS what you feel is not love at my eyes, ITS OBSESSION... and thats me friend ITS NOT COOL T^T

I quote Evie: "He should grow up"

Lucas... lucas dear lucas... YOU'RE THE BEST BRO EVER T^T in the first book he cats like this MACHINE all so insensitive and like he doesn't care about anything and you start to hate him for that but the truth is... HE DOES CARE. it's all planed out by his father. It hurt him knowing that he needed to betray his father in other to continue his work...IT HURT LUCAS RAFFY... all he did was to FREAKING. PROTECTING YOU!

then all things go out of control and he goes to linus for help XDDD

Linus dear friend XD YOu totally rock. Man he start with his comical manners XD he lives up in the book ESPECIALLY in that Computer talking in chap 27... HILARIOUSE XD and in the end when he asks thomas to tell everything that he had done, and then he records that talinkg and gives it to lucas... YOU'RE. SO. AWESOME <7spoilers>



this book is better than the others because of this character Thomas. Thomas is the psycho megalomaniac and manic guy behind EVERYTHING you know about this series. HE FEEAKING CONTROLS EVERYTHING BY MANIPULATING EVENTS... its CRAZY XD
its goes arround that thing and its less focus on the freaking LOVE TRIANGLE -.- god seriously can't stand that Raffy grrrrrrrrrr..... in the first book i've pitty him, but now... NO. No. You've got you're chance, now its too late... ESPECIALLY AFTER WHAT YOU'VE DONE T^T





anyways freaking read this book XD it makes you wonder as The declaration might makes you wonder :D


jus read this book you'll LOVE it ^^

[Neve · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Disappearances is the second in The Killables Trilogy by Gemma Malley, also the author of The Declaration Trilogy. (What is it with Gemma Malley and making her titles The Something? The Killables, The Resistance, The Legacy, The Returners ect.) In The Disappearances we follow the Evie, Raffy and Lucas a year after The System has been shut down. All should be well, but in The City people are disappearing and no one knows why....
I really liked this book. The different POVs were woven together as the story progressed to make an intricate tapestry of different characters, backstories and motives that came to its climax at the end. It was an effectively used narrative device. Not only did the mystery pull you closer into the story and help us sympathise or better understand most of the characters, but it also saved the readers from a lot of tedious villain backstory monologue at the end. I also liked how even though Malley writes in free indirect discourse she manages to hide the identity of "Devil". It becomes obvious later on who "Devil" is, but you get that satisfying, "Oh!" moment when it starts to click into place.

I mentioned Raffy and my slight dislike of him a little in my review of The Killables, but now I can say, with no reservations...

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As soon as I started to read the first chapter I just thought,
"Oh. No no. Evie. Raffy. Noo! No no no. Ugh, how long do I have to read this emotionally dysfunctional to the point of abusive relationship?" A while it seemed.
From the immature boy who annoyed me slightly in The Killables, Raffy has developed into a controlling, possessive idiot who thinks he "loves" Evie but in actual fact just views her as a possession he can hoard. Ugh. At times it annoyed me to the point I was yelling at the book. Actual screaming. My brother ran in because he thought I was being murdered.

My Brother: "What Neve, what's going on?"
Me: "UGH. THIS BOOK!"
My Brother: *Eye roll* "Of course."

Out of interest I google searched symptoms of an emotionally abusive relationship (one of the many websites I visited: http://thestir.cafemom.com/love_sex/1...) and the Raffy/Evie relationship ticked a lot of those boxes. This didn't detract much from my enjoyment of the book, but it was frustrating seeing Evie make excuses for Raffy's inexcusably bad behaviour. At the end of the novel Raffy still hadn't answered for his actions, so I'm hoping in the next book we can see some serious character development in him. That boy needs to be dressed down. (Not in a literal sense.)
All in all, a good second novel. Adding new characters gave it some suspense and tension that a lot of sequels (especially if they're in a trilogy) tend to lack.

Spoilery:
Six words. Evie/Lucas shippers will be happy.

[Christine Wheeler · Rating 5 out of 5]

It’s been about a year since the end of The Killables when Evie, Raffy, Lucas, Linus, and the crew all dismantled the System that tracked the City’s citizens, but trouble is still brewing. Evie and Raffy have found a settlement that seems like it could become home, but their relationship is strained because of Raffy’s controlling jealousy. Linus, living like a hermit in a cave hidden away from the City, is looking into some strange events on the coast. Lucas is poised as the leader of the City, but when young people start disappearing from the City, citizens begin to fear that dismantling the System may have been the worst thing to do.

Truly a solid follow-up to The Killables. I haven’t heard anything about a third book yet, but I really hope there’s going to be another installment in this series. It definitely feels unfinished as it is, and there’s definitely some loose ends that hint at another book. Great read, great author. Truly a phenomenal dystopian novel. I give The Disappearances five out of five stars.

Read the full review at eatbooksforbreakfast.com/2013/05/23/t....

[Alex Hoffman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gemma Malley never ceases to amaze me. She looks at power and leadership from different perspectives that really make me question how and why our society works in the way in which it does. The end of The Killables showed me how easily we fall into the trap of assumption. We assume that something is the way that it is (in reality as well as in fiction) because we are told that it is so. We assume that we know about life because of the little tufts of information we are told and taught. I was blown away by the clever twists in the first book, but The Disappearances was something else altogether! It turned everything that I thought I knew on its head, once again. Malley weaves characters through and intricate plot, a masterfully worked labyrinth which all fits together perfectly at the end... Perfectly and yet, as always, not containing the "happily ever after" we so wish for. I loved every page and can't wait to see what happens next!

[Laura Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Couldn't put it down. Gripping, heart in the mouth stuff. Had read The Killables a few weeks ago but picked the thread up very quickly with this sequel. Can't wait for the next and final installment.

[Ellen Voets · Rating 4 out of 5]

God I hated the parts where Devil was the focalizer, I'm really happy they turned out how they turned out to be (as in being important for the story). Still I liked this one more than the previous one :p

[Paulina (The Little Book Pixie) · Rating 3 out of 5]

07-02-13
A cover Yay!!!!
11-02-13
A summary finally:DDDD

[Renée · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn't get into this until after 40%... The last 25% really sucked me in though! All the POVs finally came together. I thought I'd figured everything out, but it seems I didn't!

[Ella · Rating 5 out of 5]

It vwas amaziing!

[Kirsty · Rating 1 out of 5]

I couldn't get back into the world after such a long gap since book one

[Liyana Flowers · Rating 4 out of 5]

When the confusing and enigmatic pieces were finally connected, DAMN the story is mindblowing.

[Loraine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Found it lagging in the beginning. Maybe because I read the first one a while ago. Was more like the first book in the last quarter. 2.5 - 3 star

[Georgie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gemma Malley is a goddamn genius.

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

It took me forever to get through this. I'm not sure if I'll pick up the last book in the trilogy.

[Lauren Hartley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Typical middle book, not as good as the first but sets up the plot for the third, I think. Still a good read. Can't wait for the next.

[Stan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nope. This series doesn't really improve... I'd suggest sticking with the first book.
Then read 1984 by Orwell.

[Caitlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thomas isn't a nice guy and I spent most of the book trying to figure out who Devil was in the present. I kind of knew who Linus was from the beginning but the whole plot lol wow

[Joelzie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was either too wrapped up in the story too see the twists coming or they were hidden well, either way absolutely brilliant :) book three is on order!!!!!

[Aidan Robins · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good second book

[Edd]

great book.

[Elisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm glad I didn't pay for it but I think the book is underrated still. However, the story seems to resemble Divergent the movie too much.

[Teresa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This second novel continues from The Killables story. Everyone thought they were safe but then it all turns sour. Can't wait to read the end.

[Jess Morgan · Rating 3 out of 5]

was a bit slow compared to the other books in the series.