Three different points of view, secrets, hidden lives, and a rush to judgement makes this psychological thriller a great read. Lisa Jewell does it again!

Thank you to Atria Books and NetGalley for providing me with an advance digital copy.

Invisible Girl revolves around a teenage girl going missing. The main suspect is the neighbourhood oddball who Cate suspects has been the one behind the recent assaults in the neighbourhood. Saffyre, the missing girl, was a former patient of Cate’s husband Roan. Their son Josh meets and befriends Saffyre and together they try to right some wrongs. While following a woman Roan had been having an affair with, Saffyre is confronted with the opportunity to get some retribution on someone who has hurt her in the past. Which leads to her disappearance.

Lisa Jewell has hit the ball out of the park once again with her latest thriller. Several characters whose lives are intertwined narrate this. I was immediately drawn into the plot and found this to be unputdownable. The way Jewell alternates narratives creates taut suspense throughout. The story is interesting and there are several plot twists. Just when I thought I understood one character, something would happen and I would see him in a completely different light. I recommend this to all fans of psychological fiction. You will not be disappointed!

I really enjoyed this one- like every other Lisa Jewell I have ever read =)
I don't believe I've ever rated any of her books below 4 stars and that is why she is crowned as one of my queens.

Thank you so much Atria Books and NetGalley for my advanced copy of Invisible Girl.

What I Loved-

The Dual Perspectives- I did not have a favorite. I thought all of the characters were interesting and I appreciated their view points.

The Writing- I read the second half of this book last night before bed. There is just something about Lisa Jewell's storytelling that makes her books hard to put down.

The Originality - Some have compared this book to Watching You ( one of my favorite books by this author. If you haven't read it: what is your life right now? JK - but seriously. Pick it up ;)
I totally see some similarities and Invisible Girl did put off Watching You vibes. It follows families in a small town, there are secrets, there is a mystery and people are definitely watching each other. That being said I believe the foundation of this book and its plot are still very unique.

The Atmosphere- The Nighttime scenes in this book had great atmosphere. A lot of events happened at night. There was some "stalking" happening and I loved the creepiness it added to the book. Is that weird? Maybe. I like weird things.

Overall- highly recommend. Cannot wait for the next Lisa Jewell. I will read everything this woman publishes.

Interesting mystery/thriller about the search to find a missing girl.
Saffyre was a patient of Roan, a child psychologist, for 3 years. She does not have much of a home life and decides to watch Roan's house. She is last seen, by Roan's wife Cate, across the street near Owen's house. Owen is a loner and lives in his aunt's house. He had a job at a school, as a computer science teacher, but has just been suspended due to sexual allegations.
The story flows pretty smoothly and will keep you guessing until the end.

Loved this book! I went back and forth over who was attacking these women and what happened to sapphyre. I was wrong about 90% of my theories- oh well! The story goes back and forth between Cate and Owen, and then we get a few chapters from Sapphyre here and there. Cate is married to Roan who was Sapphyre’s therapist a few years back. Owen lives across the street from Roan and Cate. There is a serial groper/molester in the neighborhood and Sapphyre goes missing on Valentine’s Day, during all these incidents. Owen is the main suspect, but did he do it? Does Roan have something to do with it? Just read it! It’s fast paced and the characters are like able.

I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review. I have never read a book by Lisa Jewell, but wow, am I glad I started with this one! It was a thrilling ride from start to finish told from multiple points of view. You won't want to put this one down.

I love Lisa Jewell, but this one just didn't do it for me. (I suspect I will be in the minority with this opinion.) It is definitely a slow start (and really a slow burn throughout), where not much happens for a while. It felt scattered and nothing really came together in an "aha!" moment for me. It did keep me reading, as I wanted to know what happened and kept waiting for a twist, but it wasn't as suspenseful as other Lisa Jewell books.

Thanks to NetGalley and Atria Books for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

A gripping thriller that will see you flying through the chapters as you read this thrilling novel and will leave you hooked! I am a huge fan of Jewell's novels and was thrilled to receive an ARC of this title and couldn't wait to begin.

I enjoyed the many different characters we read about in this novel and there is great character development as you read the chapters. Many complex, intriguing, and fascinating characters that were interesting to read about and follow their lives as the story unfolds. There were many surprising twists and turn that I enjoyed reading about and did not see coming.

Overall a great story that I recommend!

First line: I duck down and pull my hoodie close around my face.

Summary: Owen Pick, a college teacher, has just lost his job after a student accuses him of inappropriate actions. He doesn’t remember the incident and he tries to be very professional in all things. When he goes looking for advice he finds “incel” forums. Through the chatrooms he meets other men who have had similar experiences but are much more radical in their beliefs.

The Fours family live across the street from Owen. He has always seemed a little odd. When a teenage girl goes missing in their area they believe that it may have something to do with the creepy single man who lives on their street. And maybe he has something to do with the other sexual assaults happening in the area too?

My Thoughts: This is the first book by Lisa Jewell that I was not really impressed with. I liked it. It kept me reading till the end but it just didn’t have the same magic. I would almost say that it is mix of thriller and chick lit. It had more of a drama feel rather than suspense.

I liked the characters but most of them fell flat. I think they needed more developing. Everything seemed so obvious. I kept hoping for something shocking. Even at the end. But the last chapter was exactly what I expected. I felt very let down by this book.

FYI: Not as good as her previous book, The Family Upstairs.

This year my reading levels have been up and down, and what I was once excited by is no longer a sure-fire read for me. I was so relieved to see the Lisa Jewell readability factor is still intact! Invisible Girl is a dark, absorbing mystery with enough family drama for several books.

Invisible Girl focuses on three people-Cate, Saffyre, and Owen- who would at a glance seem to have next-to-nothing in common (but this is a Lisa Jewell book, so we know better). Saffyre is a teenager who begins to spy on her former therapist and his family, including his wife Cate. Owen is Cate's lonely and embittered neighbor, who is reeling from a creep allegations from his university job and getting involved in the incel community. I had never heard of the involuntary celibate community of men that are angry at women for not desiring them, but Owen's actions and the causes sounded like what I would expect from men who hate women. Owen's story an interesting contrast to Saffyre, a young woman who's life has been completely altered by a traumatic experience as child. I still think she's a child in this story, so we'll say a younger child. Cate is afraid of her creepy neighbor Owen, and is determined to keep her family together at whatever cost it means she has to pay personally. She may have been the most frustrating character to me in the book. Saffyre is a kid, Owen's a dysfunctional adult, but Cate as the wife who refuses to make waves is a lot.

Lisa Jewell has a real ability to create people that you don't necessarily like but still have to know what happens to them. She sets up a mystery and lets us peek into several lives that are full of secrets, resentments, and emotional scars. I'd say it's a fast read, but this year has taught me that people are reading in whatever way they can at the best they can.

Thank you to Atria Books and NetGalley for the ARC! Shout out to Lisa Jewell, who always delivers to me a must-read.

3.5 This is a mystery of finding a man who is hurting young girls, a predator. One young girl was hurt by this man when she was young. This whole book is centered around the disappearance of the young girl named Saffyre. Saffyre is a pretty disturbed girl who becomes obsessed with her therapist and his family. The therapist dropped Saffyre as her therapist, because "she no longer needed his help." She discovers all the therapist's secrets, and this book tells the story of family secrets from every person in his family's point of view. There's also a "creepy" guy named Owen involved in the missing girl drama. No one doubts that he could be the one to cause her to disappear. It makes you wonder. Do men who are creeps ever grow out of their creepiness? Are they all predators given the perfect opportunity or chance? But also the patient, Saffyre, seems just as creepy throughout the book...Makes you think. This book was an advanced reader's copy gifted to me by NetGalley for an honest review. #netgalley #invisiblegirl

Lisa Jewel is an auto buy author for me with my favorite being Watching You followed by The Family Upstairs and Then She was Gone.

Invisible Girl did a great job of keeping me engaged and turning the pages. I just love how Lisa Jewell writes. I would classify this one as a dark mystery or domestic drama, so don't expect a thriller. This is more of a slow burn then I would usually go for, but she still was able to keep me entertained. Her characters tend to be on the odd side, but I think she does a great job of having you sympathize with characters even though you may not like them. This book has a great flow to it with it's short chapters and alternating POVS. I do wish that she called this one Watching You 2 or Watching You Again. It was so similar to the concept that I think she could have done something really cool by tying the two stories together. But overall I was satisfied, and anxiously awaiting her next book!

I would recommend this to Lisa Jewell fans, and fans of slow burn mysteries and quirky characters.

Thank you to @atriabooks for providing me with my ARC this was available in the UK now, and October 13 in the US.

Lisa Jewell is a master and this new one didn't disappoint. I liked it better than The Family Upstairs, even. So good, so suspenseful....she's definitely at the top of her game!

A young girl goes missing and the police have a suspect, but is he guilty. This book had a few twisted characters, none of them particularly likable. The chapters were told from different characters perspective, not my favorite format. For some reason I never quite connected with this book. I was interested enough to want to know how it ended, but I found myself skim reading parts. Thank you to net galley for an advanced readers copy.

I'd like to thank the author, publisher and Net Galley for providing a free copy of this book in exchange for my review.

Sadly, I didn't really enjoy the book. But, I haven't enjoyed any of Ms Jewell's books, so this probably wasn't the book for me.

This was a slow-burn with a bunch of creepy men. I didn't care for any of the characters, at certain points, I cringed in worry of what would happen next. I didn't find it thrilling and easily put it down for a few days before picking it back up - it just never really held my attention. I felt like the book was unorganized, that the story lines were going no where. Anytime I read a book that does that - has several story lines that dead end - I just get angry, honestly. IF you are calling a book a suspense or thriller and throw a bunch of characters and details at me, I'm expecting to need those details in the book. But when I get to the end and it was all for nothing, well, I feel lied to and like all those extra story lines were nothing more than filler. I didn't really care if I found out what happened next, and my only motivating factor to picking the book back up was to finish the book.

That's all highly unpopular for this author. Everyone else seems to really, really love her books, but I just haven't. I'm really sorry, and I do appreciate being given a free copy of this book, but I can't rate this more than 2 stars. *Note to self: No more Lisa Jewell. She's not for you.*

So fitting to finish Lisa Jewell’s “Invisible Girl” under the night stars. Publication date is set for October 13 but...I couldn’t wait to share with you all! I loved this thriller so much. It was the perfect mix for my mood these days. It was a great book to make you reconsider your stance on genders. So yeah...mark the date down! Thanks #netgalley for the ARC ebook. #lisajewell #invisablegirl #thestars #bookstagram

To say I'm a huge fan of Lisa Jewell's writing is an understatement. She knocks it out of the park for me as a reader with every book and Invisible Girl was no exception. I loved this taut story with unlikeable characters who kept me turning pages late into the night. This was such a fun read, I gobbled it up in two sittings - it was THAT good. Full review will be posted to my blog shortly.

This book has everything that you might be looking for in a psychological thriller. We have a teenage girl who has experienced an unknown trauma, the psychologist who is trying to treat her, an uncle and a creepy neighbor.

Lisa Jewell does not disappoint in the mystery/thriller genre and she sure didn't disappoint in this one!

Many thanks to Netgalley and Atria Books for this advanced readers copy. This book is due to release in October 2020.

Troubled teen Sapphyre Maddox goes missing in the thriller “Invisible Girl,” and there are a few possible suspects in her disappearance.
1. Her narcissistic therapist, a serial adulterer.
2. The creepy neighbor across the street who has been laid off work for sexual harassment and is flirting with online incel culture.
3. One other suspect, who turns up later in the book.

“Invisible Girl” can be read in a single evening. I did not find this thriller to be thrilling, or even diverting. The plot switches focus among unengaging, unlikeable and downright crazy characters, including the therapist's wife and the kind-of-incel neighbor.

Jewell tries to make the novel relevant with cultural references to incels, toxic masculinity, and the fallout of #metoo when men are falsely accused. The novel reinforces rape myths, and the inclusion of feminist issues struck me as gratuitous. Any woman who has actually experienced stalking and abuse should avoid this novel.

When Jewell connects the dots of all the blah plotlines in this shallow book, there is no shocking twist. The solution to the mystery seems like a cop-out. The ending feels forced and far-fetched.

I received an advanced readers copy of this novel from the publisher and Netgalley and was encouraged to submit an honest review.