This was more suspense, maybe a little lite-horror, some relationship building, and just good story-telling. I was expecting something extra creepy and maybe in the horror camp. So all in all, some history, light romance, fairies, family and self discovery, and a quaint Irish seaside town made for an enjoyable read. it was nice that the story (Olivia's) created for the purpose of exploring a different story (Frances) was independently interesting and engaging. I almost found Olivia's story more interesting than Frances. I also thought Gaynor did a great job with the family dynamics and reveals. But overall, despite these hitches, I still found the book enjoyable and interesting. I also found some of the contradictions annoying (the biggest one being that the memoir was left for Olivia in a package from her grandfather, as noted in the beginning, and discovered by Olivia in the store after is passing, as stated about halfway through). I often didn't love Gaynor's use of metaphor - what others have found poetic, I have found clunky and oddly cliched (the metaphors seemed to highlight the cliched feelings/thoughts in their attempt to obfuscate them). It was an interesting story, well told and pretty well paced.
Olivia unfortunately has a bit of a jerk of a fiancé back in London and a life there that she's increasingly interested in abandoning.Īs Olivia reads the memoirs to herself and her grandmother, she learns more about what matters and what is really important in life, not to mention the Cottingley secret and perhaps even a snippet of her own ancestry. He has left her the memoir in his passing, along with his house, his bookstore, the care of her grandmother with Alzheimer's, and some debt that he'd failed to mention. Olivia is a young woman who has just lost her grandfather and is attending his funeral in Ireland. (Exactly 100 years after Frances first saw the fairies in 1917.) This book considers the perspective of Frances in the form of a memoir read by someone (Olivia) in present time. Starting in the early 1920s, Frances and Elsie sparked worldwide interest and debate regarding both whether fairies are real and, in any case, whether they'd in fact been photographed by the girls. The historical event is the photographing of fairies by Frances Griffiths and her cousin Elsie Wright in Cottingley. This is one of those books that explores a historical event-in this case, one that happens to be true-from the perspective of a present day woman exploring her past and coming to terms with her life.
#In invisible emmie the author uses different perspectives for free
ALL FOUR of these reviews are based on ARCs (Advanced Reader's Copies received for free in exchange for an honest review).
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