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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

V.E. Schwab,

Victoria Schwab

Start date: December 1, 2021

Finish date: December 31, 2021

Discussion: October 2025 Group Read

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Jun 06, 2021 Eileen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: supernatural-paranormal, audiobook, lgbtq, fantasy, romance, historical-fiction, magical-realism, 2021, 2021-ng-group-challenge

This was a book that once I started, I listened to obsessively so I could finally figure out what happens to Addie LaRue. The overall plot is Faustian in nature as Addie makes a "deal with the devil" and then spends much of the book trying to get free of him. When she made the deal with Luc to get her out of a situation when she was a child, she had no idea he was the dark one and that she should not make a deal with him. Yet her desperation was such that she might have agreed to anything. It is ...more

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Feb 09, 2022 Angie rated it liked it

Shelves: audiobooks

I honestly don’t know how to rate this book…probably 3.5 just for the fact that it kept me hooked just enough despite seeming too long and drawn out. It was equal parts exasperating and intriguing. The plot was interesting but it took way too long and really drug on more than I would’ve liked. For the hundreds of years it covered, there were glimpses of history but very fleeting. In the end, I liked it but the author could’ve told the same story in a lot fewer words. I did love the audio version ...more

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