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meganac 's review for:
She Is Not Invisible
by Marcus Sedgwick
One final time I told myself I wasn't abducting my little brother.
This book has it all - a blind protagonist, science, math, weird unique things like the fact that Laureth's name was inspired by a shampoo bottle, an epic sibling duo, a stuffed raven, a lesson in kindness toward people of colour, a mystery, and Marcus Sedgwick's crazy amazing writing.
However, it fell flat for me. We're led on through the whole book to believe that the end is going to be some dark, clever, horrifying revealing of secrets closely guarded - and then dropped with little more than a pat on the head. Anti-climatic. I feel like I traipsed into Sedgwick's mind expecting something amazing (like we got with [b:The Ghosts of Heaven|21469108|The Ghosts of Heaven|Marcus Sedgwick|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1409674391s/21469108.jpg|40787024]) and found only a rambling idea for a story - not a real story at all.
Also, what is up with these people reviewing it and classifying it as horror? This is the farthest thing from horror.
This book has it all - a blind protagonist, science, math, weird unique things like the fact that Laureth's name was inspired by a shampoo bottle, an epic sibling duo, a stuffed raven, a lesson in kindness toward people of colour, a mystery, and Marcus Sedgwick's crazy amazing writing.
However, it fell flat for me. We're led on through the whole book to believe that the end is going to be some dark, clever, horrifying revealing of secrets closely guarded - and then dropped with little more than a pat on the head. Anti-climatic. I feel like I traipsed into Sedgwick's mind expecting something amazing (like we got with [b:The Ghosts of Heaven|21469108|The Ghosts of Heaven|Marcus Sedgwick|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1409674391s/21469108.jpg|40787024]) and found only a rambling idea for a story - not a real story at all.
Also, what is up with these people reviewing it and classifying it as horror? This is the farthest thing from horror.