The Other Side of Disappearing

 Author: Kate Clayborn
Title: The Other Side of Disappearing
Publisher: Kensington
Date Published: 03/26/2024

Read Dates: 02/19/2024/- 02/21/2024
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

📖 I received a gifted e-book ARC. The following is my honest review✍🏻

The Other Side of Disappearing is a dual POV romance and family drama focused on Jess, who has been the overprotective and closed-off caregiver of her little sister Tegan since their mom disappeared a decade ago. When Tegan puts the pieces together that their mom ran off with a con man, Adam and his boss Salem come into their lives. Adam is a fledgling journalist who wants to get his career off the ground but he falls hard and fast for the reticent Jess.

I *loved* this book! If I could give more than 5 stars I would. I loved the sibling/parent dynamic between Jess and Tegan. How completely Adam falls for Jess and how he sees her so thoroughly. The positive mental health representation throughout. And the romance… just perfect.

Accompanied by two documentary podcasters, two sisters drive across the country to unravel the mystery of a notorious con man who ran away with their mother in this timely, moving, modern love story about intimacy and truth-telling in the digital age, from the acclaimed author of Georgie, All Along and Love Lettering.

Hairstylist Jess Greene has spent the last decade raising her younger half-sister, Tegan—and keeping a shocking secret. Ever since their reckless mother ran off with a boyfriend she’d known only a few months, Jess has been aware that he’s the same accomplished con man who was the subject of a wildly popular podcast.

Now thirty-one, Jess didn’t bargain on Tegan eventually piecing together the connection for herself. But Tegan plans to do exactly what Jess has always feared—leave their safe, stable home to search for their mother—and she’ll be accompanied by the prying podcast host and her watchful, handsome producer, Adam Hawkins. Unwilling to let the sister she’s spent so much of her life protecting go it alone, Jess reluctantly joins them.

Together, the four make their way across the country, unraveling the mystery of where the couple disappeared to and why. But soon Jess is discovering other things too. Like a renewed sense of vulnerability and curiosity, and a willingness to expand beyond the walls she’s so carefully built. And in Adam, she finds an unexpected connection she didn’t even know was missing, if only she can let go and let him in . . .