"involves the reader" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a text or piece of writing that effectively captures the attention and interest of the reader. Example: The novel's gripping plot and well-developed characters truly involve the reader in the story.
His skill is most evident in how closely he involves the reader in Zeitoun's thoughts.
He thereby involves the reader in separating the good, who mostly come to no good, from their persecutors; and suggests the dehumanising (and bureaucratising) nature of tyranny.
Yet getting there involves the reader in over-refined politico-cultural meanders that constantly threaten to drain the characters and dry up the plot.
She is a supremely skilled writer who involves the reader while she remains unobtrusively present herself; who uses the particular to illustrate the general, and scatters grace notes here and there like benefactions.
Reading involves the reader, the text, and the interaction between the reader and text (Rumelhart 1977; Kintsch and Mangalath 2011).
And, surely, it involves the reader's own imagination.
This is why he can so speedily get a fiction up and running, involve the reader in an invented world.
Where Doreen Rappaport uses understatement to involve the reader, Bryan Collier, the illustrator, uses a magisterial drama to get the reader's attention.
But that is De Waal's undoubted talent: his charm lies in his ability to undertake obsessive research, to pile up and accrue, to involve the reader in this almost frantic travelling and note-taking and reading.
If the novel was special because it allowed writers and readers to create jointly, to dance together, then it seemed to me that I should try to write novels that maximised this possibility of opening themselves up to being read in different ways, to involving the reader as a kind of character, indeed as a kind of co-writer.
While the genre of the historical novel is inevitably freighted with what Wood calls "fake heirlooms" — overblown set scenes, staginess, stilted dialogue — Mitchell overcomes these obstacles, involving the reader in his invented world with a "kind of warmth, a charming earnestness" that renders his book a "formidable marvel".
