For a story written so long ago I think it definitely holds up, it's well written and engaging. I was also a big fan of the science behind the invisibility and the way it laid it out. I did feel though that it lacked any real direction or stakes, I was disappointed that it never really explored the corruption that comes such power.

There is something I need to bring up, something that took me aback in here. There were a couple of instances of casual racism. One of which was the n-word being dropped into conversation by two "upstanding" characters. The context is literally a conversation about another character looking tired and one saying to the other "he looks like he's been working like a..." I understand that this story is from the late 1800's and the debate over what should and shouldn't be acceptable from that time period is for another day but my copy was published in 1988 and it feels inexcusable that as recently as that it was still in here. . I can see an argument for a book having such language if it's used to depict how vile and disgustingly racist a character is but in here it's just so flippantly used and feels so unnecessary and could have so easily been removed. I'm not one for books being rewritten and edited, I'm actually quite against it but there is definitely exceptions that should be made.