Invisible Girl: A Novel
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“I absolutely loved Invisible Girl—Lisa Jewell has a way of combining furiously twisty, utterly gripping plots with wonderfully rich characterization—she has such compassion for her characters, and we feel we know them utterly… A triumph!” —Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone returns with an intricate thriller about a young woman’s disappearance and a group of strangers whose lives intersect in its wake.
Young Saffyre Maddox spent three years under the care of renowned child psychologist Roan Fours. When Dr. Fours decides their sessions should end, Saffyre feels abandoned. She begins looking for ways to connect with him, from waiting outside his office to walking through his neighborhood late at night. She soon learns more than she ever wanted to about Roan and his deceptively perfect family life. On a chilly Valentine’s night, Saffyre will disappear, taking any secrets she has learned with her.
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.
Owen lives across the street from the Fours family. The Fours have a bad feeling about their neighbor; Owen is a bit creepy and suspect and their teenaged daughter swears he followed her home from the train station one night. Could Owen be responsible? What happened to the beautiful missing Saffyre, and does her disappearance truly connect them all?
Evocative, vivid, and unputdownable, Lisa Jewell’s latest thriller is another “haunting, atmospheric, stay-up-way-too-late read” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author).
“I absolutely loved Invisible Girl—Lisa Jewell has a way of combining furiously twisty, utterly gripping plots with wonderfully rich characterization—she has such compassion for her characters, and we feel we know them utterly… A triumph!” —Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone returns with an intricate thriller about a young woman’s disappearance and a group of strangers whose lives intersect in its wake.
Young Saffyre Maddox spent three years under the care of renowned child psychologist Roan Fours. When Dr. Fours decides their sessions should end, Saffyre feels abandoned. She begins looking for ways to connect with him, from waiting outside his office to walking through his neighborhood late at night. She soon learns more than she ever wanted to about Roan and his deceptively perfect family life. On a chilly Valentine’s night, Saffyre will disappear, taking any secrets she has learned with her.
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.
Owen lives across the street from the Fours family. The Fours have a bad feeling about their neighbor; Owen is a bit creepy and suspect and their teenaged daughter swears he followed her home from the train station one night. Could Owen be responsible? What happened to the beautiful missing Saffyre, and does her disappearance truly connect them all?
Evocative, vivid, and unputdownable, Lisa Jewell’s latest thriller is another “haunting, atmospheric, stay-up-way-too-late read” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author).
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This is an atypical Lisa Jewel novel. It’s not really thrillerish, but that’s OK. It’s a good story told from multiple viewpoints, and it takes a while for them all to coalesce into basically the same story, which makes it feel suspenseful and satisfying. One of the characters, Owen, was kind of Eleanor Oliphant-lite. The book’s ending is neatly tied up with a bow, or is it? A bit of a slow mover at times, but I really enjoyed it.
I read this book quickly. There was a point about 1/2 way through that I thought it was getting too weird. But I’m glad I kept reading. Very twisty plot!
3.5 stars rounded up because the characters really stayed with me. This is a thriller written from three different POV and I particularly found Owen’s view point intriguing.
I think this is more of a psychological drama than a thriller. A group of seemingly ordinarily people lives intersect when a woman goes missing. Jewell writes with alternating points of view which works great.
Saffrye, a young woman, has had a difficult life. Many people close to her have died and she is living with her uncle, who is only a few years older than her. She has spent 3 years with a therapist, Roan Fours, but got around to telling him her big secret; what has haunted her since she was 10 years old. So when he cuts off their therapy sessions, she feels more alone and begins to stalk Roan and sees his double life.
Owen, a teacher in his early 30's, has recently lost his job when girls at his school accuse him of inappropriate behavior. He lives with his aunt, who doesn't really like him, after his mother passed away and he father basically abandoned him for his new wife. Owen doesn't have a girlfriend or even any real friends when he stumbles upon meeting Bryn, in an online chat forum where men feel they have been wronged by women. This meeting takes a sinister turn for Owen.
Owen lives across the street from Cate and Roan Fours and their 2 teenage children. They aren't very friendly and think Owen is a little "off".
The lives of these people become intersected when attacks on women are happening in their town and then Saffrye goes missing on Valentine's night. Soon everyone is looking at Owen but looks can be deceiving. This was a slow burn but it held my interest as the stories finally merge at the end and you can see what really happened. Things are revealed that didn't really surprise me (bc I had the advantage of all the POV's) but were probably a surprise to some of the characters. Another good read by Lisa Jewell.
Saffrye, a young woman, has had a difficult life. Many people close to her have died and she is living with her uncle, who is only a few years older than her. She has spent 3 years with a therapist, Roan Fours, but got around to telling him her big secret; what has haunted her since she was 10 years old. So when he cuts off their therapy sessions, she feels more alone and begins to stalk Roan and sees his double life.
Owen, a teacher in his early 30's, has recently lost his job when girls at his school accuse him of inappropriate behavior. He lives with his aunt, who doesn't really like him, after his mother passed away and he father basically abandoned him for his new wife. Owen doesn't have a girlfriend or even any real friends when he stumbles upon meeting Bryn, in an online chat forum where men feel they have been wronged by women. This meeting takes a sinister turn for Owen.
Owen lives across the street from Cate and Roan Fours and their 2 teenage children. They aren't very friendly and think Owen is a little "off".
The lives of these people become intersected when attacks on women are happening in their town and then Saffrye goes missing on Valentine's night. Soon everyone is looking at Owen but looks can be deceiving. This was a slow burn but it held my interest as the stories finally merge at the end and you can see what really happened. Things are revealed that didn't really surprise me (bc I had the advantage of all the POV's) but were probably a surprise to some of the characters. Another good read by Lisa Jewell.
admit even if a synopsis intrigues me, I am always cautious when a story is about family dynamics. Don’t get me wrong, Lisa Jewell is a well-known author for a reason. However, in this case my gut was right. It was written well, but the story itself did not play out well for me. It was fast paced like most of Jewell’s books without much substance. There is Cate along with her husband Ronan and her kids Georgia and Josh. Ronan is a therapist whose patient is named Saffyre. She has been fighting demons since she was a child. None of these characters were remarkably interesting even knowing that. I did not care about any of them. The switching back and forth between Cate and Saffyre made it worse. There were too many characters outside of the family: Owen, Tilly, Harrison, and Aaron. It was too much to keep up with. I feel like it was an organized chaos type of story. Ms. Jewell has definitely written better. I’m not saying I will give up on her, but this one is down the list of recommendations.
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