I’ve been reading ALL the thrillers, and I really enjoyed this multi-POV story about a woman who doesn’t know who around her to trust. Check out my review of Invisible Girl!
Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell. Published on October 13, 2020 by Atria. Thanks to the publisher for providing an advance copy for review.
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Synopsis from Goodreads: Cate wonders if her husband, Roan, is having a affair. She also has a bad feeling about their neighbor Owen. Her teenaged daughter swears he followed her home from the tube station one night. Owen has just been suspended from his job as a geography teacher after accusations of sexual misconduct, which he strongly denies. 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 Maddox disappears—and the last person to see her alive is Owen Pick.
Review of Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell
I’ve seen a lot of posts about Lisa Jewell on Bookstagram and decided I had to give one of her books a try!
I really enjoyed this suspense thriller about weird goings-on in a British neighborhood. The story followed several different characters whose lives intertwine in interesting ways.
Cate went through a time when she was convinced her husband, Roan, was cheating on her. So when he gets a strange Valentine’s Day card, she can’t help but wonder. And why was he late for their romantic Valentine’s dinner? She’s also worried about the string of sex attacks in their neighborhood and alarmed that Georgia, her teen daughter, got followed home from the tube station.
Owen is Cate’s neighbor. He was recently accused of sexual misconduct at work, and when Cate sends the police his way, he’s even more angry and outraged. Then when a young girl, Saffyre, disappears, he’s the prime suspect.
Saffyre was Roan’s patient in therapy. He claims he hasn’t seen her for years, but still, Cate wonders about all the weird coincidences in her life.
I’m not always a fan of multiple POVs but I thought this book, which followed Cate, Owen and Saffyre, did a great job of showing the reader each one’s perspective on the mysteries that link them.
Invisible Girl kept me guessing until the end. What happened to Saffyre?
If you’ve read this and want to discuss, go check out my spoiler post for Invisible Girl!
Other books I’ve reviewed by Lisa Jewell:
The Night She Disappeared – and the Night She Disappeared Spoiler Post here!
None of This is True – plus a None of This is True Spoiler Post!
I’ve only read 1 book by Lisa Jewell and I didn’t like. It did keep me intrigued which sounds like what she really does. I’ll prob try this or one of her others books just to be sure of what I really feel about her.
This has me intrigued. I’ve read a few of her books and with one exception I liked them, so she always gets my attention now.
She’s new to me and I liked this book a lot!
I’ve been reading Lisa Jewell for almost 20 years and I’ve been enjoying this shift she’s made into mysteries/domestic dramas over the last few years. I have this one on hold on Overdrive and am excited to get my hands on it.
Ooh, now I’m wondering what she wrote before? But I did enjoy this one!
The plot was really unbelievable for me! The wife suspected her husband of having affairs for so long but never followed him?!!! Every single character seems to know about his affairs by simply stalking him as he has his affairs right close to home and work but hey she doesn’t! Lol
I think she knew he’d had an affair in the past but they’d supposedly worked through it and she decided she had to try to trust him.
But I agree with you – that was a big mistake!