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A review by tophat8855
Calling Invisible Women by Jeanne Ray
2.0
April 2014 RS book group
It was ok. Fast and easy to read. I think it required me to suspend reality a little too much. I'm trying to put my finger on why it didn't work for me.
It's obvious that the middle aged women becoming invisible concept is literal here, and I think I could do with that, but the extension that what was causing it was drug interactions probably should have been brought in sooner. It didn't get mentioned until many chapters in. It's like the first few chapters wanted to play with the invisible metaphor, but the author needed a "plausible" reason for it, so she just threw in the medication aspect.
And even that I could go with, but no one really noticing all these *literally* invisible women walking around in floating clothes? Yeah, I can't suspend reality to make both of these stretches for the same book.
Once they introduced the drug thing, I figured, "Oh here, the plot will speed up!" But then they go back to the invisibility metaphor and finding yourself and personal development and at the very end bring in a rush of pharmaceutical company stuff to wrap it all up.
So maybe my issue is pacing? I think that the pharmaceutical inquiry could have been written up with more twists and turns and been a much bigger part of the book. Very rushed at the end, large plot points ignored until too far into the book. But hey, a quick read.
It was ok. Fast and easy to read. I think it required me to suspend reality a little too much. I'm trying to put my finger on why it didn't work for me.
It's obvious that the middle aged women becoming invisible concept is literal here, and I think I could do with that, but the extension that what was causing it was drug interactions probably should have been brought in sooner. It didn't get mentioned until many chapters in. It's like the first few chapters wanted to play with the invisible metaphor, but the author needed a "plausible" reason for it, so she just threw in the medication aspect.
And even that I could go with, but no one really noticing all these *literally* invisible women walking around in floating clothes? Yeah, I can't suspend reality to make both of these stretches for the same book.
Once they introduced the drug thing, I figured, "Oh here, the plot will speed up!" But then they go back to the invisibility metaphor and finding yourself and personal development and at the very end bring in a rush of pharmaceutical company stuff to wrap it all up.
So maybe my issue is pacing? I think that the pharmaceutical inquiry could have been written up with more twists and turns and been a much bigger part of the book. Very rushed at the end, large plot points ignored until too far into the book. But hey, a quick read.