The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue in Around the World in 80 Books

Sep 05, 2021 Colleen Chi-Girl rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2021, women-centered, audiobooks, fairytales-fantasy, lgbtqia, sci-fi-dystop-utopian

4-1/2* rounded to 5* AUDIOBOOK

Oh this is fun, interesting, and unique! Read it quickly because it's just that good! There's a lot to take in and I'm still processing my thoughts on this. It is not my usual genre (fantasy) and it surprised me how much I enjoyed it. And it's nice that it's LGBTQ.

I'd call it fantasy, women centered, relationship and romance, without being sappy, and maybe even sci-fi. I'll write more later, if remember, and it doesn't matter.... Enjoy! ...more

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Dec 20, 2020 Jillian rated it really liked it

I really enjoyed this! Emotional, unlike anything else I’ve read in terms of the plot, and artful. Really enjoyed the historical fiction elements also. A few issues: I think this was a 400+ page book that could have been told perfectly in 300 pages—absolutely no reason for so many of those long, overdone chapters. The writing was a little too obsessed with itself for my taste, a little too quaint and precious, but! I learned to kind of lean into this writer’s way and truly I was so engaged in wh ...more

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Apr 21, 2022 Ann rated it really liked it

"He prefers to be a Story Keeper than a Story Teller."

Narrator Julia Whelan, we meet again. I quite liked your narrations of Educated and The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. In this one, I appreciated how you pronounced Henri and Henry the right way.
Your narration kept me from getting too annoyed at the frequent time jumps after 5-minute-long chapters. I also didn't see the point in the chapter numbers that weren't consecutive. ...more

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Mar 27, 2023 Ra rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-book, scifi-fantasy, büchereien-wien

The story works very well in the Audiobook version and the reader really added colour and texture to the different personas. I agree that it might have been overlong and boring in the print version.

The premise and scope adds colour and interest to the events, but I do not see that there is much character development there. Addie, even after 300 years of life, remains largely the same, defiant and headstrong, not that this is necessarily a bad thing, it just is.

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Jan 17, 2022 Joanne rated it liked it

I might not have been in the right mindset to read this book. But it was good just not great. I’m not sure why everyone raved about it so much. 3.5 stars.

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Jan 09, 2022 Jen rated it really liked it

I really enjoyed this story. I went in with some skepticism but I thought while there were predictable moments of the story, there were also always surprises. It definitely provokes thoughts about what makes life worth living as well as how we move through time. Overall a really enjoyable read.

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