The greatest thriller of fall 2020 is here. First of all, thank you to Atria, Netgalley, Lisa Jewell and Ariele for the opportunity to read and review Invisible Girl. I am truly honored, this was the highlight of my year!!! ...I’m going to try my best not to be biased as my admiration for Lisa Jewell is no secret.
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This is a different Lisa Jewell - it felt more like a mystery procedural thriller still with the dark twisted content she is well known for. It is so dark yet addicting. With stronger elements of character building and digging deep into the core of issues covered and why they occur in such sequence. This book was good from the first chapter and the ending was jaw dropping in every literal sense of the word 🤭
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On Valentine’s Day at 11:59pm Safyree disappears. There’s something eerie and mysterious about this happening on such a usual beautiful romantic night. What makes it worse, is the suspect involved is a creepy neighbor, Owen. Why does Saffyre disappear on this day? Through the story, we meet three different families. All displaying different lifestyles with dark secrets of their own. Owen, a High School teacher who is accused of being a pedophile. Roan, a children psychotherapist with the “Perfect Marriage” who treated the missing victim as a patient and Saffyre, a troubled teenager with psychiatric disturbances. As you learn more about the characters and their flaws, you assume they can all be suspects including the victim herself. Let’s talk about those amazing chapter cliff hangers, Lisa Jewell is the Queen at this writing technique. Just when you though there was a happy ending to the story, you are left with a shocking twist- right on the last paragraph of the book 📖.
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If you enjoyed Then She Was Gone, then you are sure going to LOVE Invisible Girl. Coming October, 2020.
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Some trigger points involve- child molestation, obsessions, Infidelity, Incel Forums, Stalking, and more.

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There are a few things about this book that I know will be on my mind for a long time to come. An empty piece of property, a fox, and a couple of lost and lonely young people. The pictures the author painted were so vivid and her characters are written so well, you can’t help but become invested in the whole world. I definitely was caught up in it and really quite enjoyed every moment of it.

I highly recommend this book to lovers of suspense and family drama and to those who enjoy well written characters that you won’t soon forget. I really enjoyed this one.

Thank you to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for this ARC.

Truly, I do not think there is a book that I don’t just completely love from Lisa Jewell. Her writing never gets stale, her plots are never too similar. Each character has a different voice, each book a different vibe. It’s brilliant. I have never read an author with such a wide variety, while still managing to stay true to her style.

This was such a good thriller. I loved all of the characters. Honestly, I even loved Owen. I have a soft spot in my heart for him. His story was so gritty and imperfect, yet somehow endearing, and I couldn’t help but want to root for him.

Everything ended tied neatly in a bow with the right amount of twists. I wish I could read this for the first time again - many times. Highly recommend.

Told in the third person in alternating view points, Invisible Girl centers on a neighborhood in London and how the lives of a single college teacher, a teenage girl, and a family of four, which includes a psychologist and physical therapist and their teenage kids, interconnect over the course of several months. Each individual has secrets and fears, and when a series of secual assaults culminate in the girls disappearance, everyone makes assumptions about the culprit. Presumptions and relationships get turned quickly on their heads, culminating in a a relatively fast paced ending.

Not nearly as intense or suspenseful as Lisa Jewel's prior books, but a good and quick read for her fans.

Invisible Girl is definitely a book to devour. I enjoyed how though the chapters were broken into characters, there was a clean meshing of the all. The ending was tidy, minus that off handed cliffhanger that left me wondering if the perfect bad guy was innocent of this particular crime! Nice slow to the story, and characters developed nicely. Ones I thought would be focused on, were not as much, as they became tertiary to the true story. Small ones, I didn't pay mind to, jumped front and center. Bravo.

Lisa Jewell has done it again. The Invisible Girl is such an interesting and multi-dimensional mystery novel. It is the story of three widely different individuals and how their lives interconnect and how their own invisibility tears them apart and binds them together in a thrilling set of circumstances that kept me guessing. I really enjoyed this one and though it handles some delicate topics, I feel like it was really well done.

Excellent read, I would highly recommend this book. Lisa Jewell just delivers one right after another!

Thank you to Lisa Jewell, Atria Books and NetGalley for this ARC.

A fantastic psychological thriller by the amazing Lisa Jewell! This was a quick read for me, but still very enjoyable. The ending was great, and surprising. I loved it!

Thank you to netgalley and the publishers at Simon and Schuster for granting me the opportunity to read an #ARC of The Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell in exchange for my honest review.

This was a very good “ who done it” story in my opinion! There were very obvious culprits however, the most obvious usually are never the ones you think they are. Lisa Jewell does a remarkable job of guiding the reader in one direction only to throw a curve ball and create an entirely new scenario! PSA this story has a lot of triggers for some audiences... talk of rape, sexual abuse, and cheating.

Saffyre Maddox had lost almost everyone she loves. The only person she has left is her uncle. She feels alone and different from other girls her age. She takes a liking to sleeping outside and one night she is witness to a series of events that take place outside her old therapists home... she is there because she has spent months observing him and his life after she ended her treatments with him. Between all these events, numerous characters lives are affected, multiple storylines are created, and one central misfortune comes to light. Highly recommended. 🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷/5

First off, let me just say that I usually absolutely love Lisa Jewell's books. For some reason, this just did not feel like her writing to me. The beginning was so slow to get started. The characters didn't really seem all that interesting until somewhere into the last quarter of the book. It seemed to be just a whole lot of unhappy people with personal issues. Roan Fours is husband to Cate Fours and they have two kids, Georgia and Josh. Roan is a therapist and a cheater. Saffyre is a girl who was under Roan's care for three years. She was a cutter and her family history is quite sad although her uncle Aaron really seems to care about her and treats her as if she were his own child. Owen Pick is one of those guys who is just an oddball. He keeps to himself. No one really knows him. You put all of these characters together and it's a bit of a mess. I do have to say the ending was quite good though and I don't think I would have ever guessed it. A fair read but I think I just expected it to be better because it was from Lisa Jewell.

Thank you to Netgalley, Lisa Jewell, and Atria Books for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I am a big fan of the author and have loved all of her other books. This one was just too slow for me. There are a few stories of people all living or visiting in two houses. Cate, the long-suffering wife, Roan, the adulterous therapist, and their kids are temporarily living in a house. Across the street is socially inept Owen. Saffyre, a former patient of Roan's, regularly sleeps in the lot next to Owen's house. The story alternates between their lives and the crisis that occurs when Saffyre goes missing.

I had a hard time keeping my interest up. I The ending, which included a character's delay in telling loved ones their situation, was hard for me to believe. There was a nice last minute twist, but otherwise I plodded through most of the book.

The plot was good, but it moved way too slowly.

Subject of the book was very different, the talk of incels was definitely something I have never had in a book before. The alternating perspectives was interesting and kept me engaged. The twist was really good too because until then I thought the book was very predictable. The content was good but not to the level of The Family Upstairs. Trigger Warnings: Pedophilia, Sexual Assault

Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell. Don't quite know what to say about the story. Riveting, hard to put down. A heck of a story. Ms Jewell keeps getting better and better, can't wait to read what she will come up with next.

Thank you to the publisher, author, and NetGalley for the opportunity to preview the book.

Thank you to the publisher for sharing a copy of this with me - all opinions are my own.

Lisa Jewell is BACK in absolutely perfect domestic thriller form with this newest story! She is the reigning QUEEN of domestic thrillers and compulsively readable books, and truly this is one for the permanent collection.

Honestly I FLEW through this new one and what you need to know is that you need to add this to your TBR right now, right this minute. It’s Lisa in top form with a twisting, unsettling, what the hell is going to happen piece of perfection. It’s not knowing what characters you can trust and definitely hating a couple of them. It’s aggressively reading to find out the fate of the missing girl and who is behind it. It’s getting to the last pages and a deliciously diabolical flourish for good measure. IT IS INCREDIBLE.

I loved it like I love all of Lisa’s books because man, this woman can WRITE.

What I love about this particular story is how it is so perfectly devour-able; written in short chapters moving from character to character, you quickly get a feel for these people and their lives, but you certainly CANNOT predict how their lives are going to find themselves intertwining as you go.

I also love the sheer tension and how incredibly well Lisa writes the part of Owen, who lives an odd, solitary life and whose few rash decisions made out of frustration continue to come around to haunt him. I completely appreciate how Lisa doesn't let this character off the hook and how she keeps the frustration surrounding him amped up high. SO well done.

And like all of Lisa's stories, it also makes me feel like I was in Hampstead which is the vacation from my couch I realllllly needed mid-quarantine. Lisa is a 22/10 star author. As are her books.

This is one that all bookworms MUST HAVE on their fall TBR lists, because this will be blowing up the bestseller charts and a book club favorite before you know it.

This book is labled as a psychyological/thriller drama involving a host of characters to which I only slighted warmed. Is it wrong to let a character name put you off? Let me just start with that - one of the main characters, or I should say a supporting character - named Roan Fours. Maybe it's just me but Roan Fours sounds like a game or an intersection. He was not a likeable or sympathic character.

The main character is a 17 year old girl named Saffyre Maddox who went through some heavy trama early in her life. Roan Fours was the young woman's child psychologist when she was 10 years old, helping her get over self harming herself. Three years of sessions and he stopped therapy. We follow 17 year old Saffyre along as she sits outside the Fours household, watching the comings and goings of Roan, his needy haunted and suspicious wife Cate and their two children Georgia and Josh.

The abandoned lot Saffyre sets up camp is next to an apartment building where 34 year old virgin Owen Pick (yes, he is described this way in the book) lives with his aunt. He and Saffyre exchange greeeings some days but otherwise they do not intersect in each other's worlds. Owen is looked upon as the "creepy guy" at work and by the neighbors on the street.

There are random attacks on women in the area, grabbed from behind and groped, some raped. Thankfully there isn't vivid detail of the attacks, just suspicion thrown around. During all this Saffyre suddenly disappears. I she hiding or dead? You will wonder if it's creepy Owen or the son Josh or the misogynistic Harrison John who makes his appearance near the end of the book.

This was my least favorite of any book authored by Lisa Jewell and I had difficulty connecting to anyone. No empathy from me on any of them...ok, maybe Saffyre's uncle Aaron but he does not get a big part in the book.

Some food mentioned throughout and of course the curry grabbed my attention.

Much thanks to NetGalley for the complimentary ARC copy of this book. I was not compensated for the review. Just because I wasn't thrilled with this book does not mean I wouldn't read more by Lisa Jewell.

The Family Upstairs was good and I enjoyed The House We Grew Up In as well as I Found You but...this one wasn't for me.

This book is scheduled for publication October 2020.

Twisted, surprising and paced like a rollercoaster ride, INVISIBLE GIRL is another irresistible read from Lisa Jewell, whose mastery of the thriller genre glitters on every page.

If you’ve read the plot summary for Invisible Girl you might have found it a little confusing. When I was offered an ARC I quickly glanced at the synopsis and thought on the one hand that it sounded interesting. On the other hand, I thought, I didn’t really care because one thing I know for sure is that I love Lisa Jewel’s books. She and I, we just click. I can’t explain it really because I wouldn’t categorize her books as thrillers even though most seem to be marketed as such. Suspenseful sure, do they have an eerie quality about them that keeps the reader feeling as though something untoward is lurking under the surface? Absolutely. However I still wouldn’t cal her books thrillers, yet there is something about her writing that grabs me and draws me in each and every time.

But I digress, when I began reading her latest novel Invisible Girl, because I’d only skimmed the somewhat enigmatic synopsis I thought this book was about something totally different than what it turned out to be and therefore it surprised me at every turn. If you love Lisa Jewel you will love this book. If you’ve never read a Lisa Jewel novel this is a great book to start with full of complex characters and subtle twists and turns. I’m not going to summarize the plot here again because I think it’s best if you go into this book blind. I’m beginning to believe that about all of Jewel’s books because they never turn out to be quite what I expected going in and I enjoy them all the more because of it.

I was OVER THE MOON HAPPY to be approved for this! Thank you for the ecopy of this book. I will be posting a full review on Goodreads, Amazon, and Instagram! Many thanks!!!

Lisa Jewell is a pre-order author. I don't care what she writes- a manual on gardening, a calculator help doc, a short story on hamburgers- I will pre-order whatever is published with her name on it. She is an amazing story teller and Invisible Girl shows off her endless talent.

Invisible Girl follows the story of Cate and her family as they settle in to their temporary new home. It also introduces us to Owen, their odd neighbor across the street with some pretty serious socially awkward behavior ticks. Oh and the mysterious girl named Saffyre who is a key character. So typical Lisa Jewell style- character development city!

I feel a kinship with Cate and her relationship with her children. Lisa writes teenage behavior so well, I side eyed my own daughter when she walked by. And Cate's teenage son Josh and his angelic behavior- again, similar to my own relationship with my own sweet son who does not wrong. Or does he?

Thank you Lisa for featuring a character of color- Saffyre is biracial and I think its so important to represent people of different backgrounds. I think many people will be able to identify with this character and some of the trauma she is healing from.

I can't tell you anything more without spoiling it. But I can say that I ended the book with a smile on my face feeling so satisfied. Lisa tackled some tough topics in this book but when I finished I remarked on what a lovely story it was. I actually used the word lovely because when I read Lisa Jewell I become incredibly proper.

But in all seriousness, Lisa you are a fabulous story teller. You tackle tough subjects with beautiful prose. Your characters become real and matter to me. Your books are instant classics. I can't wait for the next one.

I found myself fully immersed in the story as well as the individual voices of the characters. The author has a way of pulling the reader into the motivations of each character as well. I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it.