debsd 's review for:

She Is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick

1.0

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Billed as young-adult, fast-paced, a thriller - but it's none of those things. It's slow-moving and the situations which were described were just too far beyond credible to keep me interested. Somehow a blind teenage girl gets herself and her younger brother into the US without getting a visa or a visa waiver, without anyone asking for proof that she's authorised to take her brother out of the country, without anyone realising she's blind...nope, it's already too far-fetched. I'm not a big fan of YA, but the writing and storyline here don't even come up to YA standard - there is just too much wrong. There is a huge amount of - well, I was going to call it exposition, but exposition is supposed to support the theme or explain parts of the story, and this just feels more like filler. As others have said, this is just trying much too hard. The anticlimax at the end would have been disappointing if my expectations had not already fallen so low. I know there are those who think Sedgwick is a brilliant writer, but unless someone really sells me on another work by him, I won't be looking for any more of his books.