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消失的你

消失的你

Siu Sat Dik Nei
Details
Author 牧羊少年T · Shepherd Boy T
Language Traditional Chinese · Hong Kong
Format Novel
Published 2023
Pages 272
Read 2026-07-15 → 2026-07-17
Finished
Awards

Review

消失的你 was a really surprising novel, it’s a mystery novel, a psychological thriller and a love story mixed together. In many mystery novels, the question is often “who is the murderer”, but here there were a lot of questions coming one after the other, and as we get to know the narrator better, I became obsessed with finding out the truth.
There’s tension all along, and the novel really makes you care for the characters.
The only thing that I maybe didn’t like all that much is the Koo family background, I found it felt a bit too extraordinary.
Overall, an excellent novel to me, I’m glad I decided to read the winners of the Soji Shimada Mystery Award!

Updates

100%

Ended up spending the whole holiday reading this. Loved it very much, I’m glad it won the prize, otherwise I might never have found it.

80%

I finished chapter 4. It’s crazy how this book manages to be different things at the same time while staying so coherent.

73%

Finished chapter 3, somehow this book now reminds me of Huang Shan-liao‘s 好好再見 不負遇見, rather than a mystery, though it’s also kind of a mystery novel.
I’ll probably have time to read chapter 4 today as well.

50%

Halfway through! I wanted to read chapter 3 today too, but it’s very long, and I’m very tired.

The story is really surprising, every time I think I know in which direction it’s going to go, it ends up being completely different.
I love it very much, could easily be my favourite read of July.

41%

The second chapter was so engrossing! Now positions and motives are clear, I’m really looking forward to see how the plot will unfold!

22%

Wow, this novel is so great! I really enjoy reading it :heart:

15%

I finished the first chapter, and I loved it!
I don’t know in which direction it will go, but it’s very good so far.

Characters

第四章 父親
阿花
ā huāAh Fa
Ku Fan’s neighbour
古賢亮
gǔ xián liàngKu Yin-leung / Ethan Koo
Person who disappeared 15 years ago
汪小姐
wāng xiǎo jiěMiss Wong
Person to contact (Ku Fan’s friend, worked with him)
汪芷茵
wāng zhǐ yīnWong Tsz-yan
Narrator’s daughter
阿黛
ā dàiAh Tai
Narrator’s ex-wife
錢
qiánChin
Name of the narrator
美姐
měi jiěSister Mei
hourly maid, working for M. Koo
阿財
ā cáiAh Choi
Man who regrets buying at 潮騷山莊
古勳
gǔ xūnKu Fan
Ethan’s father, popular author of horror fiction.
愛倫坡
ài lún pōEdgar Allan Poe
The black cat’s name
錢文魁
qián wén kuíChin Man-fai
Narrator’s name
麥高芬
MacGuffin
The labrador’s name
汪黛莉
wāng dài lìWong Tai-lee
Narrator’s ex wife and miss Wong, Ku Fan’s friend

Vocabulary

WordReadingDefinition
閉路電視 bì lù diàn shì closed-circuit television

I rarely see the word 閉路電視, I don’t know if it’s widely used. I feel like I see 監視器 more often.