The author of the “rich, dark, and intricately twisted” (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) The Family Upstairs returns with another taut and white-knuckled thriller following a group of people whose lives shockingly intersect when a young woman disappears.
Owen Pick’s life is falling apart.
In his thirties, a virgin, and living in his aunt’s spare bedroom, he has just been suspended from his job as a geography teacher after accusations of sexual misconduct, which he strongly denies. Searching for professional advice online, he is inadvertently sucked into the dark world of incel—involuntary celibate—forums, where he meets the charismatic, mysterious, and sinister Bryn.
Across the street from Owen lives the Fours family, headed by mom Cate, a physiotherapist, and dad Roan, a child psychologist. But the Fours family have a bad feeling about their neighbor Owen. He’s a bit creepy and their teenaged daughter swears he followed her home from the train station one night.
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.
With evocative, vivid, and unputdownable prose and plenty of disturbing twists and turns, Jewell’s latest thriller is another “haunting, atmospheric, stay-up-way-too-late read” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author).
The Review
Like reading about incels to a tortuous extent, I have a book for you.
I picked this book up on a whim this week to read with my followers on Instagram. I did not read the synopsis. Lesson learned, perhaps.
What I did learn interestingly enough, is that my quirks are not yours and vice versa. I could see why this might have worked for some people but it did not work for me.
If you find incels interesting and want to explore the topic in a thriller suspense book, then his might be for you. It is not for me.
I like Lisa Jewell’s books but the characters in this one were a failure and the traits of the main character(s) were part of the plot.
Making the dislike for the character(s) inseparable from my enjoyment of the plot.
This was a no for me!
INVISIBLE GIRL…⭐️⭐️
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