Invisible Girl ✦ Lisa Jewell

A Suspenseful New York Times Best Seller

Morgan’s Rating

Thriller fun fact: They’re proven to be mentally stimulating and stress relieving.

Also proven to make me want to move to forensic nursing.

Hello friends! It’s been a while! This whole once a month thing was not what I had in mind when I started a blog, but here we are… you being an occasional reader and me being a crazy workaholic. That’s okay though, I still get my reading fixes in between via Kindle Unlimited. Fear not, I will eventually create a post with my favorite Kindle authors!

The thriller of the month (because apparently that’s all I read) is Invisible Girl. It took me all of six hours to read this 353 page book. I ate. It. Up. The plot ❤ The characters ❤ The setting ❤ The theme ❤ All the little details just pulled together to make this a great book!

Owen: Mid thirties, still living with his aunt, suspended from his job and accused of sexual misconduct, lacking in charm and angry at women but probably harmless. The perfect prey for the dark and sinister Bryn, leader of the incel revolution.

The Fours family: Living across the street are stay at home mom Cate, Roan, the renowned kind of okay child psychologist and kind of okay dad, Josh, strangely reclusive teenage son, and rebellious, outspoken daughter Georgia. Entangled in a web of lies, mystery, and even… assault?

Saffyre: Former patient of Roan with an unhealthy obsession about Dr. Fours and fear of abandonment. Missing person. Last seen by Owen.

Told in alternating points of view over an alternating timeline, I had no issues keeping up with whom I was reading at any point. I absolutely adored Saffyre, she was such a strong and independent character despite the trauma she experienced growing up! Owen made me angry, he had his head in the sand and a woe is me attitude. Although, in his defense, he gets a bit of a redemption arc and I think we are maybe supposed to feel bad for him (spoiler: I don’t). It’s really not the fault of all of womankind that your parents sucked. We won’t talk about Roan, he and I aren’t friends. Also wanted to bop Cate over the head once or twice, but overall it’s her naïveté that bugs me.

Invisible Girl is built on character development. Because the pro- and antagonists are so three-dimensional, everything else is icing on the cake.

Here’s your trigger warning: themes include infidelity, sexual assault, and the degradation of women. Not in a bad way necessarily, your heroine kicks the bullies to the curb! However, I do believe that’s one of my biggest beefs with this book. You have all these themes that are actually super relevant to the storyline, but they’re not really built upon and are only marginally mentioned. It makes for a much less dark book, but it takes away from the plot.

This is a roller coaster style book. Except the roller coaster doesn’t go up and now, it goes up and up and up and then seems very anticlimactic until the last page when the ground drops out from under you and you’re stuck with a cliffhanger that shall never be resolved. I was a little hurt that the ending didn’t go as I wanted but it was still so good! A bit incomplete, but good regardless.

It’s such a gripping thriller that I never knew what to expect and the twists and turns were so fantastically written! I definitely recommend to those who have ever wanted to be invisible, and those who haven’t!

Well friends, it’s been real. See ya next month xoxo