I have to admit for someone who longs for adventure, Addie certainly moves very slowly through the world and stays in places for a very long time, though I guess that makes sense for someone who has never been further than her small village in her entire life! However, due to the nature of her curse, she does have a tendency to be quite self absorbed and selfish and she did feel kind of aloof and disconnected in places. I did like Addie’s character, her stubborn determination, her ability to find joy even when her life seems so bleak, her need for adventure and longing to escape from her small town, all of those aspects of her character I loved. I could also relate a lot to Henry’s struggle with figuring out what he wanted to do in life and his feeling like time is moving too fast sometimes, as those are definitely feelings I’ve had in the past too. Basically if you like cinnamon roll characters, you will love Henry. I definitely connected more to Henry than Addie, he felt more grounded and I loved seeing a softer and more sensitive male character being cast as the love interest as I so often read about these brash alpha male leads. Plus, thankfully the characters are really strong. The plot can be a little thin in places, it does feel like a series of unconnected snapshots in places but again, as soon as the two main characters meet, things improve on that front. This is definitely a character drawn story rather than a plot one. It did help that though there are a lot of chapters, they are all pretty short. There were some places where I’d have liked things to move a little faster, but for the most part, the slow pace didn’t bother me and things picked up quite nicely when Addie met Henry. By it’s very nature, the story is a slow unspooling of hundreds of years of history. I will admit, it is a very slow paced book, which is not usually what I like, but this is the kind of story where a fast pace just wouldn’t have worked. You know when you read a book and you’re just in absolute awe and wish you could write something as gorgeous as that? Yeah, that’s the writing in this book for me. I’m not usually one for description but the writing in this book is SO BEAUTIFUL. It’s quite different to the way Schwab writes in any of her other books, she definitely leans into the description more here but it works so well. I feel like I have to start off with the writing on this one, because it’s definitely the most noticeable thing about this book. Schwab’s #1 New York Times Bestselling Author genre-defying tour de force. In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.īut everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore, and he remembers her name. It’s going to be a hard one to review without going into spoilers, but I’ll give it my best! Here is a short synopsis of the book:įrance, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. It didn’t meet the heights of A Darker Shade of Magic, Vengeful and A Conjuring of Light, but it’s definitely up there with my favourite Schwab books. So it’s safe to say that my expectations for this one were super high, and I’m thankful that they were met and then some. I’ve been excited for this book for a long time now, since I first heard VE Schwab talk about it and have eagerly snapped up every little snippet that she’s posted on Instagram since. I am in no way exaggerating when I say that this was my most anticipated book of this year. Thank you to Netgalley UK and Titan Books for allowing me to read this book early, it in no way affected my opinion of this book. BECHDEL TEST: Pass-Addie and Sam talk about art.Ĭontent warnings: Grief, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, attempted sexual assualt, attempted suicide, loss of a loved one, war, starvation, sex work, forced marriage, emotional abuse, mentions of cancer in the past, vomiting, mind control, drugging without consent
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