How important is it to be seen? To be seen at work for all your hard work and dedication? To be seen and appreciated in your relationship? To be seen for your beauty and intelligence and loyalty?
Izzy has been passed over for a promotion at work, more than once. Her boyfriend hardly looked up from his video game the last time she tried to seduce him. Her best friend Tash is a gorgeous flirt, who makes fast friends whenever they go out while she fades into the wallpaper. Izzy feels invisible, but she's content. That's just how things are, and she's accepted that things probably won't change.
And then things change.
Izzy wakes up one day and discovers that she's invisible. Not just metaphorically, but literally. She is invisible. And after she finishes being really freaked out about it, she figures out what an opportunity it is. She gets to see others for who they are, and they have no idea that she's even in the room. It's time to turn things around in her life, and she starts right away to clear out the clutter and make room for more work success, a better relationship, and the chance to see herself differently, which may be the greatest gift of all.
If You Could See Me Now is a charming, laugh-out-loud look at how we see ourselves and how we allow others to see us. Keris Stainton has created utterly likable characters and set them free in a world that is a combination of magical realism and all-too-real realism for so many women who feel invisible in life. If You Could See Me Now is the romantic comedy you didn't even realize you needed, but once you start reading it, you will be pulled into Izzy's world, and you can't imagine your life without it.
Galleys for If You Could See Me Now were provided by Bookouture through NetGalley.com, with many thanks.