Invisible - Book Review
There is nothing like an uninterrupted 7 hour plane ride to get caught up on leisure reading. This past weekend, I was reminded of that as I picked up a book someone gave me and asked me to promote in my own circles of influence. As I looked at the cover, Invisible by Ginny L. Yttrup, I smiled. I’ve certainly felt that way before, and I’ve certainly wanted to feel that way before. Funny how that single word can leave me feeling both ways at different points in my life.
A few pages into this novel, I was completely hooked. Oh, how I could instantly identify with the main character, Ellyn! But then I met Sabina, and Twila, and Miles. As I saw these individual stories intersect and combine to create one huge and very visible theme, I found myself wanting to know these characters—and then realizing I actually did know them!
These characters are my friends…family…colleagues.
These characters are people that I watch from afar… and wonder
about their private pain.
With each chapter unfolding the story from a different pair of eyes, Invisible leaves you with little cliffhangers as the story develops. It leaves you asking, “What’s going to happen?” But this author doesn’t disappoint—by the end of the book, nothing in each character’s life is left invisible. The only thing I could wish for by the last page was that there were more pages—so the story could go on. Invisible is one of those books that leaves you with the feeling of, “I can’t wait to find out what happens!” at the same time it leaves you with, “Oh, it’s over already? Darn!”
I’m so glad that the author chose to share this story—realizing that we have all been created in God’s image is a truth that can’t be shared enough!
