Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
I would give only 3 stars, but the one is for originality of the story. I don't have words. It was sweet, but I was expecting more. It was nice and I really got into tge story but sometimes it was little bit boring and not funny. But I love the characters. The Journal of Jack Peak was also one big plus for me. He had interesting thoughts :)
I found this book frustrating. Over explaining in areas. This book is in no way a fast paced thrill ride. All wrapped up way to neatly. The coincidence parts just confused me and gave me a headache. I did like the last 354 item.
Dec 2013: great book really felt real and a little crazy.
March 2019: It was just as wonderful as I remembered it being and I'm so glad that I decided to re-read it.
March 2019: It was just as wonderful as I remembered it being and I'm so glad that I decided to re-read it.
quite interesting themes , love how it finished on page 354
This book was a great fun read. Loved the main characters and I loved how the story unfolded.
I really loved Laurith's perspective and the system she and Benjamin created to communicate was fascinating! But, you really read a thriller for the ending. The big twist is what makes or breaks a book like this, and for me, it was very anticlimactic.
Basically, some guys on a plane overheard her dad saying his book was worth gold and diamonds, they thought he meant REAL gold and diamonds, so they decided they needed to steal them. They mugged him and left him stranded (which is why he went missing and didn't return Laurith's calls), then they stalked (and threatened to rape) Laurith so they could steal the money. Yeah, so that's a bit far fetched, but what really got me, was the fact that when the bad guy cornered Laurith in her room and she got away, the book ends with her running into her dad in the hotel lobby, him saying, "there's some police over there, we'll just turn the guy in", so they do, and then the guys are arrested and dad explains that he was fine the whole time. That's it. That's the end. Oh, and mom and dad's marriage is better because of the worry kids put them through. So the kids don't get in trouble for running away and lying and stealing their money to pay for the trip and so on. So basically, if the kids had never left home, dad would have still made it back to the hotel on his own, the police would have still been conveniently hanging out in the lobby, so he could have turned them in, and he would have still decided what he wanted to write about next. So yeah, it felt a bit anticlimactic and.. pointless.
Laureth keeps tabs on her famous father’s emails, making sure that his fans are responded to in a kind and timely way. But one day, she gets an email from someone claiming to have her father’s writing journal. The problem is, her father is supposed to be in Europe, but this person is in New York City. Laureth’s mother doesn’t seem to care about her father being missing, so it is up to Laureth to figure out how to reach him and find out what happened. But Laureth has an additional obstacle to her rescue mission: she is blind. So she must fool her 7-year-old brother into joining her on a flight across the Atlantic Ocean to a huge city to find her father. This is a quest unlike any other, written by a master.
Sedgwick’s writing is beautiful and effortless. He has created a truly incredible character in Laureth, a girl who doesn’t even realize how brave she is. Her blindness is both a huge factor in the novel but also never a factor in Laureth’s self perception. She tries to pass as sighted throughout the novel, managing it at times and failing at others. There are frightening encounters, moments of disorientation, and other times where blindness is the reason she survives.
Sedgwick’s book is about far more than a girl who is blind making a quest. It is about moments of coincidence too. Sedgwick works this theme in by pulling quotes from Laureth’s father and his research into coincidence. But it is also a large theme of the book itself, those breathtaking moments where the universe seems to be speaking just to you. And it is those moments that make the connections we have with others stand out clearly.
A remarkable protagonist in a magical book, this is another winner for Sedgwick. Appropriate for ages 13-15.
Sedgwick’s writing is beautiful and effortless. He has created a truly incredible character in Laureth, a girl who doesn’t even realize how brave she is. Her blindness is both a huge factor in the novel but also never a factor in Laureth’s self perception. She tries to pass as sighted throughout the novel, managing it at times and failing at others. There are frightening encounters, moments of disorientation, and other times where blindness is the reason she survives.
Sedgwick’s book is about far more than a girl who is blind making a quest. It is about moments of coincidence too. Sedgwick works this theme in by pulling quotes from Laureth’s father and his research into coincidence. But it is also a large theme of the book itself, those breathtaking moments where the universe seems to be speaking just to you. And it is those moments that make the connections we have with others stand out clearly.
A remarkable protagonist in a magical book, this is another winner for Sedgwick. Appropriate for ages 13-15.
The heroine of She Is Not Invisible made this a great book for me. I loved her spunk, her love for her family, and her mastery of her fear of the unknown. It was fascinating learning about Laureth's methods for getting about in the world. Learning about coincidence theories was fun, too. I stayed up way too late finishing this!
Love it. Like a lot. Don't have much to say. Just really good and interesting. A bit....random and coincidental (?) sometimes i guess But really enjoyable and fun. Made me smile
After hearing hype about Marcus Sedgwick for the last couple of years, I had to try She Is Not Invisible, and I didn’t really care what it was about or anything. I just knew that I needed to read a Sedgwick book. I was nervous, though, because She Is Not Invisible is a mystery, which isn’t really my thing, and I also think he’s better known for horror (also not my thing and maybe meaning mysteries aren’t his thing?). Whatever, though, because I like to branch out and try new things. In this case, adventurous reading has paid off richly. Sedgwick’s writing is gorgeous, his characters realistic and well-drawn, and the subject thought provoking and unique.
Read the full review at A Reader of Fictions.
Read the full review at A Reader of Fictions.