#BookTalk- She is Not Invisible By Marcus Sedgwick

 She Is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick

Oh my golly goodness! I don't know how to feel about the book. It was very different for books I typically read, and very unnerving. She Is Not Invisible is about a sixteen year old, Laureth, and her seven year old brother, Benjamin, traveling from London to New York to find their missing Dad. Sounds simple enough but that isn't the freaky part her Dad was obsessed with the idea with coincidences, and this number 354. As these kids are alone in a strange new place with limited clues to find their missing dad, things just get more and more strange. Oh and here is the kicker... Laureth is blind. I didn't know what to aspect from the book, but the interactive parts really just seem to cause you to have chills that even if coincidences are not truly haphazard, it is still freaky no less.

Characters


Laureth. First she is named after a chemical found in shampoo. If that doesn't make you destined to be a great protagonist and know what does. And second she is blind. Laureth character definitely allowed me to understand blindness in a different way, and how she is able to manage a new strange place with just her seven year old brother as her guide is just plan fascinating. Through the journey in finding her Dad, she finds more confidence in herself, and shows heart, when she is finding the people she loves. She freakin' traveled to a different country on a plane, across the water by herself! Amazing.

Benjamin. He has his own superpower, even though it hinders him but if you think about it people would write about his ability in comic books! The Benjamin Effect, his ability to disable any electronic device just by his touch. Pretty crazy! But he acts so much older than his age, as he as to be the eyes for his older sister. And see things and experience things that someone his ages typical does not. He is very brave. I love at the end when he just like "Hey Dad, we have been looking for you," all chill as if they were crazy driving around NYC all day.



Had to come up with my own character pictures because A) the book is not as popular to have fanart B) Laureth is blind, so we don't get character descriptions really

Plot

The plot was anticlimactic. It is strange to say but it kinda was. All day these kids are running around trying to find clues in anything to find their Dad. They come up short every time, and find out maybe Dad was getting a little crazy. But then these prisoners (out of nowhere, I might add) say they have their dad and they want to know where the money is, and I am like What?!?! Then when Laureth could die any second, her Dad appears with the police. We just fine that he was just mugged becasue the prisoner misheard him on the phone and thought he had money.
For a whole book being about coincidence then finding out coincidences are not really coincidences just really annoyed me, I guess.
But the wordsmith.org coincidence, (I even looked it up! it was truly freaky to see the character name there) was just spooky!
But I don't know, I wish the ending was less subdue and was more TADA! I didn't even mine that the dad magical appeared right when Laureth was running for her life, becasue I didn't want her to get hurt. But the story built up and built up and then fell short. But I guess that is also something to think about, we always look into stories expecting something epic. But nothing epic actually happened becasue they are just ordinary people. And for them it was epic...I guess something to think about.

All in All

I truly found the book interesting, as it takes to into the mind of a blind girl and the idea of coincidences. It is very interesting to see both of those aspects. By the end, knowing I would have to talk about the book, I was just like ehh... not bad but not super good either. I was really just going to shrug it off as a book I read. But the idea of coindences are really impressionable. Also the last paragraph made the whole book!
"Maybe something will happen to you.
Something so weird it makes you stop and think.
As weird as if you picked up a book, maybe even the book you're holding now, looked at the first word of every chapter, and you put them all together, and found a hidden message. Something to make you think, yes.
Yes, that's what we all need." 

It was hard to find the hidden message, I think it was because I was looking into it too much or something, or not enough. But once you read the book and you see it, you say will say, "yes, that's what we all need."