A review by yoyoitsflo
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke

3.0

This book was honestly hard to get through and just really didn’t do it for me. It was hard to connect fully with the author’s personal journey because when it was getting somewhere, it would immediately switch to the data driven portions. Some of it was quite informative but after awhile, I just wanted to hear more about the author’s journey than statistics and facts about certain things. This was the main source of difficulty with connecting for me. However, I can acknowledge the importance of such data being collected and being presented in one place.

Also, it’s very interesting how despite all the data, there it’s very little nuance provided about the ways in which society treats chronically ill and disabled people. I can understand if the other doesn’t identify that way, but it seems like a huge thing to leave out of such a book.

Overall, three starts because I can see the value it holds, but if it weren’t for that, my rating would be less.