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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

V.E. Schwab,

Victoria Schwab

Start date: October 1, 2021

Finish date: October 31, 2021

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Aug 19, 2021 isa ☆ﾐ rated it liked it · review of another edition

(3.5)

"If a person cannot leave a mark, do they exist"

"Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives-or to fins strength in a very long one."

"Small places are for small lives. And some people are fine with that. They like knowing where to put their feet. But if you only walk in other people's stpes, you cannot make your own way. You cannot leave a mark."

This review is going to be pretty bad since I read this for almost a month ago but only now got motivation to write a review LMAO

So wh ...more

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Jul 11, 2021 lily ✿ rated it it was amazing

this was a highly anticipated read due to the amount of hype surrounding this story. so often, reading a book that you’re so excited about ends in bitter disappointment. they can almost never live up to your expectations, to other’s raving reviews - but this one did. i can say with confidence that ‘the invisible life of addie larue’ is a book worth reading.

let’s start with the unique and captivating idea for a plot - a girl, having struck a deal with the devil (a god? the darkness) finds herself this was a highly anticipated read due to the amount of hype surrounding this story. so often, reading a book that you’re so excited about ends in bitter disappointment. they can almost never live up to your expectations, to other’s raving reviews - but this one did. i can say with confidence that ‘the invisible life of addie larue’ is a book worth reading.

let’s start with the unique and captivating idea for a plot - a girl, having struck a deal with the devil (a god? the darkness) finds herself having gained a life as long as she desires - hundreds of years long, where she is free to roam and explore, destined to endure all of life’s many pains and sorrows, but to also be captivated by all of its many beauties. the only catch? nobody remembers her. a door closed, eyes heavy with sleep, and she is forgotten. she roams the world like a ghost, where nobody knows her name - until henry.

i remember you.

henry’s story and the circumstances that lead him to remember her, the ‘mistake’ that led the two of them to fit so perfectly together - is just as compelling as addie’s own. (i’ll admit, he was my favorite character and i devoured his bits hungrily.) (i love my sad boys, that can’t be denied.) while addie’s story was fascinating, i fell in love with henry not just for his past but for who he was as a character.

the writing itself was beautiful, a prose that i fell in love with again and again after every line. if i had marked down each verse that made me think ‘wow,’ that made me lose my breath, all 440 pages would’ve been littered with sticky notes. i’ll admit that this book was long, the pages thick with words, but the chapters were short and easily read and all of the time devoted to it was worth it. i never grew bored, never grew tired of this masterpiece of a novel.

the plot itself was perfectly interspersed with present and past, fitting due to addie’s predicament. it was also (of course) pockmarked with cliffhangers and suspense, waiting and wondering for the ball to drop. (the ball always drops). i was so afraid that it would have a horribly sad ending, couldn’t see any way that it wouldn’t, but it surprised me. it was bittersweet, but perfectly fitting, and i honestly couldn’t have asked for anything more.

i absolutely loved this book. it is the sort of story that you wish you could read again for the first time. ...more

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Jun 15, 2021 jenna ♡ (fullybooked) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: physical-bookshelf, historical-fiction, 5-star-reads, adult, fantasy-romance, magical-realism

Okay wow wow wow.
I think I’m gonna have a book hangover for a WHILE. The writing in here is STUNNING and I was completely enamoured with the story from page 1.

I was a bit nervous going into this one because of the mixed reviews and the length - I was nervous that it would become a bit tedious and feel too wordy, but the pacing is *chefs kiss* perfection and I found myself wanting more. The settings are so beautifully captured you almost feel like you’re right there alongside Addie, it made me m ...more

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Jul 06, 2022 hania (taylor's version) ❥❥❥ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: on-my-bookshelf, stand-alone

This. was. so. fcking. amazing.
After 8 months, I finally finished it. I was so close to mark it as my DNF but I am so glad I didn't. Those last 200 pages that I had left since May literally made me give this book 5 stars. I don't know why I was struggling to finish this so much, since this book was amazing from the start. I love the language, the extremely original plot and the fact that it is just so intelligent. And the end literally made me cry so much. Everything is just- perfect.

But I thin ...more

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May 13, 2021 Paz 📚💖 rated it liked it · review of another edition

3.5

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Oct 13, 2021 megz rated it liked it

I expected more from this. I did. I really did. Addie is just... I don't know, so plain. Boring. Uninteresting. I wanted her to be more badass, you know? I wanted an enemies to lovers relationship between Addie and Luc. I feel like we kinda got that, but it just wasn't THERE, you know? And Addie... I just... she could have TRIED to be more interesting. I really did not like any of the flashbacks except for the parts with Luc. Because Luc is interesting. Intriguing. You want to know more about hi ...more

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