Book Review: Invisible Girl | Lisa Jewell

The Stats

📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚

BOOK: Invisible Girl

AUTHOR: Lisa Jewell @lisajewelluk

Publisher: @atriabooks

Stars: ⭐⭐⭐

Published: October 13, 2020

https://amzn.to/2JXEzRb

The Review

The Title/Cover Draw:

• Lisa Jewell is a new author to me so when book club was going to read it, I was excited to try her out.

What I liked:

• Very Subtle ways of giving away clues without totally giving away the ending. The author has a way of writing characters to be creepy but also slightly sympathetic.

What I didn’t like:

• There were times the book lagged a bit, especially because of the different points of view and time jumps. While the read was engaging, the resolution fell flat to me. 

The Characters:

• This story is told through 3 different points of view. Cate’s is about herself and her family, the “Fours”: Husband Roan, and kids Josh and Georgia. They are renting the house across from the second character, Owen Pick, who is kind of a creepy guy. Saffyre Maddox is the girl who goes missing, and our third major character.

The Ending:

• While there was one creepy thing at the end, the rest of the book was pretty obvious. I didn’t feel totally satisfied, unfortunately.

Consider if you like:

• Thrillers that are easy to read. 

All thoughts and opinions are my own. 

Summary:

Owen Pick’s life is falling apart.

In his thirties, a virgin, and living in his aunt’s spare bedroom, he has just been suspended from his job as a geography teacher after accusations of sexual misconduct, which he strongly denies. Searching for professional advice online, he is inadvertently sucked into the dark world of incel—involuntary celibate—forums, where he meets the charismatic, mysterious, and sinister Bryn.

Across the street from Owen lives the Fours family, headed by mom Cate, a physiotherapist, and dad Roan, a child psychologist. But the Fours family have a bad feeling about their neighbor Owen. He’s a bit creepy and their teenaged daughter swears he followed her home from the train station one night.

Meanwhile, young Saffyre Maddox spent three years as a patient of Roan Fours. Feeling abandoned when their therapy ends, she searches for other ways to maintain her connection with him, following him in the shadows and learning more than she wanted to know about Roan and his family. Then, on Valentine’s night, Saffyre Maddox disappears—and the last person to see her alive is Owen Pick.

With evocative, vivid, and unputdownable prose and plenty of disturbing twists and turns, Jewell’s latest thriller is another “haunting, atmospheric, stay-up-way-too-late read” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author).