Invisible Girl
MIDNIGHT: In an area of urban wasteland where cats hunt and foxes shriek, a girl is watching...
When Saffyre Maddox was ten, something terrible happened, and she's carried the pain of it ever since. The man who she thought was going to heal her didn't, and now she hides, learning his secrets, invisible in the shadows.
Owen Pick is invisible too. He's never had a girlfriend; he's never even had a friend.
Nobody sees him. Nobody cares.
But when Saffyre goes missing from opposite his house on Valentine's night, suddenly the whole world is looking at Owen.
Accusing him. Holding him responsible for Saffyre's disappearance.
I had previously read The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell and really enjoyed it. But this book was so disappointing. None of the characters were particularly likeable and generally weren't that believable either.
I felt the police procedure was all wrong, not only questioning someone because a neighbour thinks he looks creepy but taking Owen in for questioning when he was not under arrest, no mention of his rights and that he could have refused to go with them. No mention either of a warrant to search the house, and they would have searched the entire house and not just his room and computer. There was mention of some warrant later when he was arrested, but it didn't feel right to me and the evidence seemed pretty shaky, it was all based on here say.
So they search his computer history but then say the website doesn't exist, but it would have existed if it showed up in his search and browsing history and you can't delete websites that quickly, there are very often cached copies held on the servers and the domain would have been registered and so traceable. That was sloppy research.
Pretty much felt like the book was made up as the author wrote it without a clear idea of where it was going.
The ending was nothing much either, still left in the air.
I am being generous in giving this 2 stars.
Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for my ARC in return for an honest review.