Wow! What a book! I LOVED it to bits. Talk about riveting. This book sucks you in from the start and won't let go until the very end. I absolutely enjoyed every second I spent with Jewell's latest story. I couldn't help but get caught up in the story and start trying to figure who done what. The writing was top notch and the characters were so interesting to get to know. This was definitely one of Jewell's best books yet.

Invisible Girl: A Novel by [Lisa Jewell]

An engaging read . . . that fell apart at the end.



Review copy provided by publisher.

I love Lisa Jewels books and this one completely drew me.So many twists and turns chilling moments characters that come alive.Sat down to read a few pages and found myself reading late into the night, A book I will be recommending.# netgalley #invisiblegirk

I LOVED this book! Psychological thriller at its best with lots of twists and turns.

The story was told from three different perspectives:

Saffyre--the invisible girl who has had a lot of torment in her life
Owen--the creepy college professor who has many incidents that fit the bill as a peevy guy (even though you feel really sorry for him and are outraged at some of the assumptions)
Cate--the wife of the therapist that has counseled Saffyre for three years.

The characters are woven together and when you think you have it figured out you're thrown for a loop. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves mysteries and thrilles. So amazing!

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for an advanced copy of the book for my honest review.

Holy Cow! Invisible Girl was one of my absolute favorite Lisa Jewell books! I read this in one sitting and could not put it down. Loved the twists in the story and really liked how the story was told from alternating view points. Cannot wait to recommend this book! Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advanced copy.

I’m a big Lisa Jewel fan, but this one is my least favorite of hers. In this book, you will follow 3 pov’s. Cate: who is a stay at home mom, Safire: an ex-patient of Cate’s husband & slightly obsessed with him, and then Owen: a quiet man who everyone thinks is creepy. These three worlds collide when someone goes missing & several attacks on women in the neighborhood happen. This is definitely a slow burn mystery as we navigate between the 3 people. The slowness didn’t bother me, but the lack of mystery did. Overall, I was slightly bored to the point that I didn’t care what happened. There was a lack of mystery, suspense, or the desire “oh my god, what’s happening?!”. I love Lisa but I would pass on this one.

*Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for an arc in exchange for an honest review .

This is fascinating psychological mystery/drama more than a thriller. It’s about the real wild animals wearing human furs and acting like decent people! It’s about prejudiced approach and point of views we show when we see someone weird, different and outcast! As you spend your time to smear someone’s live and ruin him/her with your hypocritical opinions, the real monsters start to walk among you and hurt your loved ones before your eyes! Truth may be out there but we may be so blind to see it!

This is another surprising, riveting, exciting, fast pacing, ready to be devoured at one sit book! But it is also thought provoking, stunningly twisty and surprising story about abuse, womanizing, rape, sexual assault. It’s really dark and irritating. As you finish the story and put down your kindle it still stays in your mind and continues to haunt you throughout your daily life.

We have three POVS of the story: Owen and Saffyre are my favorites because they are both complex, outcast, weird and tormented, lonely characters. And we also have Cat, mostly prying her family members’ lives, living in her head and trying to solve the mystery about missing Saffyre.

Saffyre Maddox has a big secret: something happened to her when she was 10! Someone had abused and left invisible scars at her soul! She harmed herself to deal with her bottled up anger and inner scream. He is orphan, raised by golden-hearted uncle Aaron but she cannot confess him what the boy did to her. So she starts seeing her therapist Roan Fours. She got help for three years but Roan cut her therapy sessions because he thought she was fine. But she was far from fine. She didn’t blurt out her secret slowly killing her. So she decides to stalk her therapist and sees his double life. She also decides to take the matter in her own hands, getting her own revenge.

We’re introduced Cat, Roan’s wife, mother with two children: Georgia (mostly annoying, spoiled), Josh (mother’s sweet boy), suspected her husband was having affair but her husband insisted he was not so they gave their marriage second chance. They rented a temporary place till their house’s restoration ends but she reads and hears so many assault news around the place. Someone out there is targeting women and she is afraid of her daughter’s well-being. She is overprotective, prying mother. (I understood for her reasons but mostly this character was so easily manipulated and weakest one from the trio I annoyed so much!)

Now her daughter’s close friend says she was assaulted and all the eyes turn to their neighbor’s house: which brings out our third character (if this book turns into a movie, my candidate to play Owen is Joaquin Phoenix. Owen’s character has quite resemblances with Joker and an actor who knows to empathize with the abused, outcast, persona non grata can perfectly be in the character’s shoes.) Owen Pick!
Everybody thinks something really wrong with him. He is nearly thirty three, carrying weirdo vibes like his second skin, ( weird clothes, weirder haircut and weirdest shoes define his modern style) never had a girlfriend. He never had a real friend. His mother passed away and his father had his own new family, avoiding him like plague. So he lives with his aunt who detests him and not to be kind enough to hide her feelings.

He is a teacher and he just got expelled because the girls in the school insist that he treated them inappropriately when he got drunk at the school party.

Now Saffrye is missing and everybody thinks he is the predator! He is involved with the girl’s disappearance. Did he do that? He always has blackouts when he drinks too much and he had his first date at Valentine Day’. He consumed more he could handle. But he never went too far to hurt people. But the girls in school, his neighbors, a woman he bumped into during his walk to home and his own aunt think otherwise.
So what happened to Saffrye? Did her stalking tendencies to her old therapist put her into trouble or did her rapist finally catch her? Did the suspicious man, harassing women around the neighborhood hurt her? Or did Owen get anything about her disappearance?
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his is mysterious, psychological, mind numbing, impeccably crafted, provocative story with powerful conclusion. I’m giving my four stars! I adore Lisa Jewell’s works and thankfully this is so much better than her previous book. I highly recommend it to lovers of mystery books and her fans.
Special thanks to dear Ariele Fredman, Atria Books and NetGalley for sharing this one of the most anticipated thriller ARCS with me in exchange my honest review. I truly enjoyed it so much.

I enjoyed reading this book. It had a good story to it. I liked the variety of characters in it. It was a well written book. I have read other books by this author and liked them too.

The cliche "could not put this book down" gets thrown around a lot in reviews, but I...literally could not put this book down and finished it in less than 24 hours. I devoured this book with the same breakneck pace in which the plot unfurled. Often thrillers make a trade between characterization versus pacing, but I felt this novel kept a perfect balance of making the characters intriguing enough to be invested in without sacrificing pacing. The generosity and humanity with which she depicts characters many would find unlikeable/unrelatable is compelling as we watch the characters grapple over the control of their own growth/healing. The exploration of toxic masculinity was fascinating as this novel shows us that hatred of women is hidden behind many different masks.

**I received this ARC in exchange for a fair and unbiased review**