Title: Invisible Girl
Author: Lisa Jewell
Genre: Mystery Thriller
Published: October 13, 2020
Pages: 368
The Carpenter Confessions Rating: ★★★☆☆
GOODREADS SYNOPSIS:
Owen Pick’s life is falling apart. In his thirties and living in his aunt’s spare bedroom, he has just been suspended from his job as a teacher after accusations of sexual misconduct—accusations he strongly denies. Searching for professional advice online, he is inadvertently sucked into the dark world of incel forums, where he meets a charismatic and mysterious figure.
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 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).
THE CARPENTER CONFESSIONS REVIEW:
I seem to say I’m going to read something other than thrillers, but I find myself reading yet again another thriller and it was a part of another buddy read. The thing is, out of all the thrillers I’ve read recently, I haven’t read one that amazes me and Invisible Girl falls in that category too. I was excited about this one because it would have been my first Lisa Jewel book and the book just seemed really appealing. The book was filled with mystery and multiple characters with a different story, which in the end, all correlating. I had a good time reading this book, I just felt there were a few things that I just didn’t really love.
Invisible Girl had me intrigued from the start. The story that had a plot that was carried throughout the whole story. While I didn’t hate this book, I definitely didn’t love it. I felt even though the story was well thought out, I became bored very easily. I didn’t feel there was anything making me want to turn the page. I kept wanting more and it never seemed to come. I wasn’t able to connect with any character and the ending had me very disappointed, I felt like why did I read this book for it to end like that. There was potential in this book to be something more than it was. Even though I wasn’t immersed in this book, I also couldn’t seem to put it down. I didn’t love this book, but I don’t regret reading it and for someone who isn’t a huge thriller fan, I could see where they may like a book like this.
If anyone has any other Lisa Jewel books I should check out, let me know.
WHO I’D RECOMMEND TO:
Once again, another thriller for people for love thrillers This one also wasn’t too intense of a thriller and had more a contemporary feel. Anyone who may like multiple perspectives would like this because there are three different people. This is aimed towards more of an older teenager/college age group.
FORMAT:
Physical Book
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