The Invisible Girl follows a group of seemingly strangers as their lives intersect when a young girl goes missing. Owen Pick, a 33 year old self proclaimed loner, finds himself at the middle of it all after losing his job.
I absolutely loved the story line and the characters. Very well developed and had me hooked right from the beginning. Loved the ending! Highly recommended for all.
*I received an advanced reader’s copy of this book in exchange for my honest review

A special thank you to NetGalley, Atria Books, and Simon & Schuster for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

To say that Owen Pick’s life is falling apart is an understatement. He is a thirtysomething virgin who lives in his aunt's spare bedroom. After he is accused of sexual misconduct, Owen gets suspended from his job as geography teacher. Although he strongly denies the allegations, the evidence against him keeps piling up. With nothing else to do, Owen spends his days online. He stumbles across a forum for involuntary celibates and meets Bryn, a dark and charismatic character.

Living across the street from his aunt's house is the Fours family. The mother, Cate, is a a physiotherapist; Roan, the father, is a child psychologist; Georgia is their teenage daughter; Josh is the youngest and is a mama's boy. The Fours doesn't bother with Owen—not only do they find him creepy, Georgia swears that he followed her home from the train station once.

On Valentine's night, seventeen-year-old Saffyre Maddox goes missing. The last person to see her alive was Owen Pick and he is the police's number one suspect. But she also has a connection to the Fours: Saffyre is a former patient of Roan's and she became very attached to him. When he terminated their sessions, Saffyre felt abandoned and so she she started spying on Roan and his family—she knows more than she should and things are not what they appear to be.

In a word, brilliant!

Dark, compulsive, and at times disturbing, Jewell has written another spectacular book. She is a master at creating suspense that is both atmospheric and compelling. Told from multiple points of view, the narrative is propelled through highly-developed characters whose motives are revealed in their intricacies.

Invisible Girl poses the question how well can you really know someone? It is too easy to form an opinion that is not only based on beliefs, but also on outward appearances and perceptions. Many of the characters are keeping secrets—Jewell capitalizes on this and and plays on perception to pull off a clever twist.

Chock-full of secrets, obsessions, and misconceptions, this is Jewell at her finest and I highly recommend this book.

As long-time Lisa Jewell fan, I was thrilled to receive this advanced copy of <i>Invisible Girl</i> to review. This dark and twisty thriller is set in an upscale London neighborhood, where you don’t know what’s really going on behind the closed doors of the posh residences.

One night, a 17 year old girl goes missing and a number of the residents are suspects. Owen, the 30-something teacher, who is having issues at work. Roan Fours, a psychologist, who his wife, Cate doesn’t quite trust. Their two teenaged children, Georgia and Josh, who are also harboring some secrets as well.

While this novel plays out nicely and is a quick read, I just didn’t find it as encapsulating as Jewell’s previous books.

I received a complimentary copy of INVISIBLE GIRL by Lisa Jewell. Thank you to Atria and Netgalley for the chance to read for an honest review!

Publication Date: 10/13/2020
Rating: 3.5 / 5
INVISIBLE GIRL centers around Saffyre, a girl who has experienced trauma in her young life which still haunts her today. She has spent time in therapy with a child psychologist Roan, therapy that she feels ended too soon. Roan is married to Cate, a woman who feels that her husband is keeping things from her and at one time felt that he may have been having an inappropriate relationship with Saffyre. Nearly a year later this break in their mutual trust is still haunting their marriage. Little does Cate know that Saffyre has continued to keep tabs on Roan, watching his every move.

Across the street fro Roan and Cate’s rental unit lives Owen, a man who struggles in life. He’s never had a successful relationship and he’s been accused of inappropriate behavior with the female students at the college where he teaches. Suddenly Owen finds himself wrapped up in the story of Saffyre’s disappearance after an excess of drinks the night she disappeared leaves him fuzzy on the details of his night.

I really wanted to love INVISIBLE GIRL but I was left with mixed feelings. I found the writing to be great and easy to settle into, but it was a bit of a challenge to fully connect with any of the primary characters. The book gives us the POVs of Owen, Cate and Saffyre. Saffyre was the character I liked the most of the three, but she was the one we heard from the least given that the story revolves around her disappearance. Cate has a lot of worries about her husband and their children, but she also has a bad habit of avoiding confrontations that might lead to the truth. Owen was a bit hard to figure out. He’s had a rough road in life, but it isn’t clear how much he is creepy and how much he is just socially awkward and an easy target.

In the end I expected there to be a bit more of a surprise and that never really materialized. I do still enjoy Lisa Jewell’s writing and I enjoyed the book overall, it just wasn’t a book that I loved. INVISIBLE GIRL will be out on 10/13/2020!

"Invisible Girl" is the fifth book that I have read by Lisa Jewell, and I think that perhaps this author isn't really for me. I haven't really been "taken" by her books like other readers have. "Invisible Girl" isn't bad per se, it is just that nothing really stood out for me in this book.
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Lisa Jewell books never miss. She’s become one of my go to authors, and I was so excited to get this book from Netgalley. The book started off a bit slow, but it picked up quickly and delivered quite the punch. Another must read from Jewell.

Do you ever wonder who your neighbors really are? In Invisible Girl, we meet The Fours. Owen Pick lives across the street from him with his aunt, which already makes him super weird. Because he’s in his mid-thirties. Think a slightly creepier than Steve Carell 40-year-old virgin who lives with his elderly aunt. Weird, right?

But then Owen, a father of two across the street? Also kind of weird. He’s a therapist but is constantly leaving his house at all hours of the day and night to job in skin tight black clothing. Weird.

Then at the intersection of all that, we have Saffrye, a teenage girl who has pretty much lost everything. She’s an orphan who lives with her uncle who is very cool, but still a single dude trying to parent his niece.

Great, characters right? Jewell really sets a fantastic foundation for the story that ensues. There’s betrayal, accusations and a mystery at the center that kept me turning pages. I think this one was read pretty much in one sitting. Jewell definitely does not disappoint.

Special thanks to Netgalley and Atria books for an advanced e-galley in exchange for my honest review. This one is out October 13, 2020. This review will be published on my blog, Women in Trouble Book Blog on September 15.

This book started off so strongly for me, but kind of fizzled out by the end.

So our book revolves our three characters all loosely connected to each other and living in the same neighborhood.
A Middle Aged Mother trying to deal with teenaged kids and a marriage that’s barely holding on.
A teenage girl dealing with a home life that’s full of loss and a slight obsession with her therapist.
And A adult teacher who is accused of inappropriate behavior with students and finds solace in other men in his same situation online.

I was all about this book for the first half, maybe 3/4. We jump back and forth between these characters and time lines so we know someone is missing and presumed dead, we also know there’s a sexual predator lurking in the neighborhood. Which is a great layout, and of course Lisa Jewell writes great characters so I was very invested in the beginning.
Throughout the book the story unfolds and unfortunately by the time we get to the reveal(s) I was unimpressed.
It was a lot of build up and gave very little payoff.
I didn’t hate it, I just felt let down.

Reading this was one roller coaster of a ride! This was a cleverly crafted plot with a lot of the unexpected.
Many thanks to Atria Books and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

Saffyre is a 17 year old girl who has been hurt in the past. Owen is an incel (involuntarily celibate) 33 year old and he lives across the street from a family with secrets. And if you’ve read @lisajewelluk previously, you know they’re going collide spectacularly.
Told from three POVs, Invisible Girl is a well paced, suspenseful, cunning book with a brilliant conclusion. The characters, flaws and all, are crafted spectacularly and their emotions are palpable. This is a dark, twisted mystery that’s another win.
If you’re not already reading her books, now is a great time to get lost in Lisa Jewell’s writing. The perfect escape from 2020.
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I really enjoyed this one! This was one of my most anticipated books of the year so I was stoked to get an ARC. I love how this book alternates between three POV’s and how they all feel so different. We get Saffyre’s chapters in the past, and in the present chapters she is missing. We also follow Owen and Cate’s POV in the present. Owen is one of those characters who makes my skin crawl and he pisses me off so bad he makes my blood boil.

I had a really great time reading this. I was surprised by where the story went. I like this one more than Watching You but not as much as Then She Was Gone or I Found You. But I definitely still recommend this one!

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book. This was a strange one that kept my attention but it was just good not great. I am surprised to be let down by a Jewell book.

We’ve all been warned to watch out for wolves in sheep clothing. People living double lives with ulterior motives can be the root cause of trust issues. When I pass someone on the street or engage in a conversation with my coworkers, I sometimes wonder who they are behind closed doors. What awful secrets do they suppress? This book will have you 2nd guessing everyone you come into contact with on a regular basis. One person may seem like a good guy when secretly, they are a woman-hating incel. (Whoa)


Invisible Girl is a mystery whodunnit type of book. We are trying to figure out what happened to a young lady named Saffyre Maddox (love her name btw). It’s written from multiple POVs. We are thrown into a town’s secrets and have to decipher who to believe all while watching it play out from the past and present day.


I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book provided by the publisher. All thoughts and opinions are my own

SO good! The queen of thrillers does it again! I absolutely love everything Lisa Jewell writes. I hadn’t been able to get into a book for about a month but this one grabbed me immediately and I couldn’t put it down! I highly recommend!!

What the actual eff did I just read alert (in the best possible way) . Invisible Girl definitely needs ALLLLL the trigger warnings but this one is worth the read if you are not of the faint of heart! Shifting POVs from incels, disappearing women & more, this book will have you flipping the pages as fast as possible - I devoured this in just one sitting! It releases in October and is definitely a book you want on your radar! For fans of Jewel’s previous novels, this one is more Then She Was Gone than Family Upstairs!

Invisible Girl is the story of Saffyre Maddox, her disappearance, and the hunt to determine who last saw her. Was it the socially awkward neighbor, the philandering psychologist, the psychologist’s son or someone else entirely? I typically really enjoy Lisa Jewell’s books, but this thriller was pretty predictable for me, honestly. Still enjoyable for sure and I sped through it in one sitting, so that counts for something. Content / trigger warning for child molestation and rape fantasies. Thank you @atriabooks and @netgalley for my free copy in exchange for my honest review. This one will be available in October 2020, just in time for Halloween!
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Thank you to Atria for a free advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. So here is that very honest review.

I would give this more like 2.5 stars. I really wanted to love it because I love The Family Upstairs, although that one did have a weird ending too. However this book started out weird from the beginning. It was a very uncomfortable weird too. I am not usually triggered by plots with sexual assault, but the way this book was written just felt very strange from the beginning.

A chilling tale with lots of suspense, guessing and shady characters!

I'll leave it to you to decide....

Everyone is living in a house of mystery.

I suspected several characters and flipped a few times while reading (which is always fun!). Everyone seems to be in a hoodie, BUT who is the one?

Something creepy is happening in this little neighborhood. People are watching, peering out their windows, gathering clues.

Jewell's twists create many layers of a puzzle with characters that have depth. She throws in handfuls of truths and unexpected turns.

So many rabbit holes.... a twisty, dark path. An unexpected end!

This book held so many secrets you couldn't help but want to keep reading. However, there seemed to be almost too many characters and storylines that I often wanted to read about one when the book would take forever to get back to that storyline. In addition, without giving it away, I want to say that the conclusion and tying of the lose ends was almost a disappointment. I actually got to the end and asked what the point was. It was interesting to meet each of the characters, and I did enjoy the book for the most part, but really the story just didn't go in the direction I wanted it to. This was the third book by this author that I've read, and really I think it's more that she's just not for me.

This was a twisted little story. It seemed a little slow to start but got much better half way through. I enjoyed the story! Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the early copy