A review by highlordelliott
The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

4.0

I found this book to be highly entertaining. H. G. Wells writes with such a flair for creatively hilarious diction the story really comes to life. We meet the invisible man post transformation and we watch his slow yet steady descent into madness. I never quite found myself rooting for him to succeed in his ventures, given his unapologetic crankiness and his mild habit of larceny and just general exceptional selfishness. Wells makes no attempt to polish Griffin's image, instead we are entralled watching this perfectly depicted enigmatic persona infiltrate a small town and we take the perspective of the simple yet intuitively curious townspeople trying to pin down the mystery of this peculiar stranger. This book is a bit of a slow burn but when it gets going it's a ride on a ninety degree coaster with no brakes.