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It is that big chunk of book between approximately page and where this story lost me. As soon as the love interest arrived on the scene and the whirlwind romance started, I began to lose my emotional attachment to the story. A number of things about this part irked me. The way the purple prose bled over into dialogue which I never like , the way I instantly guessed the truth about Henry, and, my god, the way we had to be reminded of his "black curls" every time he appears on page.
We also get a lot of backstory about Henry and I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, I appreciated the discussions about depression and anxiety, and I honestly related to a lot of what the author describes here, but I also found Henry just quite boring in general. I wasn't interested in his relationships with his friends and family, so the chapters we spend with him dragged for me. It grew repetitive, too. After the interesting start, the story seemed to wander around aimlessly.
The darkness appears and whispers evil things, Addie meets people and is then forgotten over and over. I did like the ending, though. I feel like it will be polarizing because it is left somewhat open though not for a sequel, I hope , but I liked the lack of neatness and found the final chapter very satisfying. One more thing. There's been a bit of controversy over how Schwab's adult books are often wrongly categorized as YA because she is a woman. While I have no doubt women writers do suffer this indignity, I've read a good amount of YA and adult fantasy from both men and women and I still cannot shake the feeling that this book has a very strong YA vibe to it.
I know it's a completely subjective line to draw anyway, but I would be far more likely to recommend this book to YA fans than to fans of adult fantasy. Compare this to other women who write adult fantasy like Jemisin, Le Guin, Butler, Wecker and Marillier, and it's a whole different vibe and maturity level, I feel.
May 23, Kai rated it liked it Shelves: queer , owned. This was a good book. What you'd expect from Victoria Schwab. Magical and lyrical. And yet I turned the last page and was left wanting.
This is the book that Victoria has been working on for 10 years. And yes it's pretty. It's an amazing concept and an intriguing beginning. But I first read this in July and now, barely three months later, I cannot remember all that much except for the fact that Addie has seven bloody freckles in her face like a constellation of stars.
It was mentioned so often, I had no chance to forget. It's on the cover too. Literally couldn't be more in your face. This is probably the thing that bugged me the most about this whole book.
The damn freckles. Character-wise I have to admit that I didn't fall in love with either main character. I didn't warm up to Addie and I cannot tell you why.
I can't say much about her except that she's smart and really doesn't want to die, which is relatable I guess, but not enough to make me feel for her. The same goes for Henry. He's pretty and smart and doesn't want to die, which is relatable I guess, but he doesn't have enough edges for me to care for him.
I did love that they were both queer, though. But that alone doesn't make for a fascinating character. It took a while for the plot to get rolling. For the first half of the novel Addie simply floats through time and makes some wondrous and some horrible experiences.
And everyone who meets her forgets about her as soon as she leaves the room. But after that happened to the third person, I got it. After that, the book didn't hold many surprises. Overall, definitely a nice book to pass the time, and for someone who is only just getting started reading her books, it sure is a beautiful introduction. That is draw me in and never let me go. Find more of my books on Instagram View all 52 comments.
Oct 15, Cindy rated it liked it. VE Schwab has consistently great writing as always and really wrote her ass off here. I can tell many of the internal struggles that the main characters go through particularly Henry come from a personal place in Schwab's life, and you can feel that earnestly pouring through the pages. This book would be enjoyed by people who like slower, atmospheric, and character-driven stories. View all 32 comments.
Nov 09, jessica rated it it was amazing Shelves: favourites. Feb 06, Victoria Schwab added it. As I do my final read-through on this book, a story nearly 10 years in the making, all I can think is that I've put my heart and soul, my teeth and blood and bones into this one. I hope you love it.
ETA: I can't believe we made it. Addie spent so many years haunting me, I hope she haunts a few of you. Jul 19, Emily Books with Emily Fox rated it it was amazing Shelves: releases , arc , favorites. Love story between a French girl and the devil over years I tried to go into this book with low expectations considering romance isn't my genre and Wow, this has to be V.
Schwab's best book! I've always liked her writing but this character-driven, slow-paced story really works for her. It's closer to literary fiction than her other work and her characters are much stronger. Frankly, I recommend you go into it knowing nothing else. Pick it up! View all 60 comments. Aug 31, Lala BooksandLala rated it it was amazing. View all 42 comments. Dec 27, noelle rated it it was amazing.
View all 44 comments. View 1 comment. Jul 13, Maryam Rz. Shelves: faves , contemporary , adult , lgbt , historical-fiction , fantasy , feminism , mental-health , romance , all-time-faves. When a book traps your soul from beginning to end and beyond, keeping hold of a string to your heart even as you leave it behind, you know it deserves all the constellations in the night sky.
Credit: Nicole What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind? And if you lean in, shell of an ear pressed to the ring, you would hear the When a book traps your soul from beginning to end and beyond, keeping hold of a string to your heart even as you leave it behind, you know it deserves all the constellations in the night sky.
And if you lean in, shell of an ear pressed to the ring, you would hear the echoes of a madwoman, murmuring of a dance of three centuries, a game between the ruler of darkness and a ghost of a girl, a war that was a love affair and a need and an obsession. And if you stack up your courage in a fist and ask her what it is she seeks, she would tell you it is a god and a girl, a forgotten thing. And then she would turn to the night and cry out in challenge and raging prayer.
This, my friend, is where I suggest you let your fist fly open, scattering the gathered grains, and flee. For if you stay, the devil would take your soul. They say, and they say it honest and true. I would know—I am the wraith, after all.
Such exceptional weaving techniques of piecing the tale together as a puzzle; such eloquent work, bringing the pages and words full circle; such perfect prose with sensible, tangible, and fitting metaphors. Such talent. Much perfection. What she needs are stories. To be remembered.
And to forget. Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one. From sculpting characters that are more than a sculpture, real as any person with various outlooks on life that indeed leak into their way of speech, to scrutiny of details, wiping away any possible logical holes in the plot or magic , I am going to call V.
Schwab my new all-time fave author even though this is my first book of hers. Let me just fold up my sleeves and get into the process of devouring the rest of her works.
Addie LaRue is unforgettable. So buckle up for personal information you absolutely did not ask for. Strangers raise an eyebrow, family nods in understanding of a shared problem, but friends What those friends do not understand is the meaning of love.
Frankly, I was not sure of it either other than knowing I am not capable of it. So what about Luc? It can create. But remember that, no matter how these two cutthroats fit, no matter how their passionate, warlike back-and-forths are something they both crave, she only really had him in the vast emptiness of her world, and he made it so. Her thoughts are filled with him, because he made it so. Remember that, however alluring their affair, it is not love. Because sensitive, caring, soft, quiet, strong characters haunted by failure more often than not fail to hold my flickering attention, yet I now trust Victoria Schwab to do the unlikely.
Freedom is a pair of trousers and a buttoned coat. If only she had known. And ideas are wilder than memories. About stories and ideas taking root in unseen places and climbing up through the darkest places of mind that have never seen the sunlight. Not about the world-changing historical figures and world-ending historical events written as a hammer falling, but as a friend and a brief conversation and a flash of life.
This is not about the affect of the grand but the power of the minor. Unknowns to see. Novelties to discover. And it is all the more memorable because of it. Ever held that tiny, inconsequential keepsake of a forgotten soul, refusing to ease your desperate grasp?
Have you spent hours and days and a lifetime breathing your heart and soul and life into that lifeless thing, shaping it with your will and need and then, just a blink too soon, a moment before perfection, resolution, completion, seen it fall apart? Tell me, have you ever felt that abyss of sadness reserved for the lost?
The forgotten? The lonely? Perhaps a decade too short, perhaps a moment. But a life always ends too soon. Info on the film adaptation with Schwab as screenwriter. Pretty book filled with pretty people and pretty writing. That's it. I felt like I was missing some weight or substance in this book. And I know why. There was to much probably the most in any book that I've read , way too much of telling and less showing. Like the whole book was basically described to me; I couldn't live, learn it, or see it.
And that was fundamentally most disappointing to me. We were living through someone else's view- a narrow field of view at that, and still could barely Pretty book filled with pretty people and pretty writing. We were living through someone else's view- a narrow field of view at that, and still could barely get a taste.
Also this book is very white. We're told that Addie got to experience and travel to a plethora of different and vast places- Spain, Singapore, India, Beijing, etc And then New York. So much could have been done and said in these other different places and countries that are full of rich history, context, and people of color. But I guess that doesn't matter because Addie has fully lived.
We just didn't live long enough to see it pun intended. But none of that is ever brought up. The writing for this book was incredible.
Chef's kiss. My type of writing right here. Not too flowery or pretty; just the right kind of song, beat, and rhythm. Probably the best aspect of the entire book. Henry to me, was the better character to read about; I wanted to get to know him better and I preferred his arc over Addie's.
Even though he's a basic lonely boy just wanting to be loved. Still, the ending of the book, I think, was the weakest. I could already tell what was going to go down and what would happen. Does that necessarily mean a bad thing? But if that was the scale of the ending to a whole premise based on bargain of immortality, finding love, and being able to live again, I would have expected it to be different, a roaring epic showdown of proportionate value Overall a book with a great premise and wonderful writing that ultimately fell a little too flat for me.
View all 22 comments. BR with the lovely Marta I know how many people love V. This was a nightmare. Plot-wise, this story could have been so thrilling. The plot begins when Addie LaRue , our protagonist, makes a deal with the devil in order to get out of an arranged marriage, and finally live the adventurous life she has always dreamed of living.
But there is a catch. Not only does she become immortal, she is also instantly forgotten about by every person she meets as soon as they leave the room she is in. Ultimately, the book was anything but exciting. Most of my favourite books lack a spectacular plot, and I am always in the mood for a good slow-burn, but this could easily have been condensed to a page book without leaving out anything of the slightest importance. At least half of the book did not add a single thing to the overall narrative, the development of the characters, the atmosphere About three hundred years after the spell is cast, Henry Strauss somebody with no interesting characteristics whatsoever meets Addie in the second-hand bookshop where he works.
When Addie returns to the shop days later, Henry still remembers who she is. This is the part where the insta-love and the cringey rom-com montage scenes come in. I remember you. She is self-centered and insensitive, and really has no hobbies which is quite strange for someone that has been alive for three hundred years and counting.
So, as you can imagine, when circumstances push her toward developing feelings for another flat character, the relationship is as stale as can be. I understand that insignificant scenes of everyday life can have the ability to let readers fully connect, but what this book lacks is a clear point. Over-explaining is Schwab's downfall with this one. At the beginning of the novel, I enjoyed the theme she explores of art essentially being the only truly immortal part of human life — but as the chapters went by, and Schwab kept substantiating the point she was trying to make a thousand different times in exactly the same ways , I ended up being bored out of my mind.
This repetitiveness is not only to be found in the plot itself, but also in the writing. I have heard many people say that this is the best writing they have seen from Schwab to date. That it is beautiful. That it is lyrical. To each their own, but if this is considered to be amazing writing, I do start to wonder how low the bar is on that topic. The text is filled with obscure metaphors that do not make much sense, the same sentence structure is used continuously, and many words and phrases are used, reused, and re-reused Can somebody count how many times a sentence starts with 'and yet' or 'blink'?
How many times some boy has 'black curls tumbling over their forehead'? How many times Addie's seven beautiful freckles form a constellation or some shit? Or how many times Addie LaRue wants to be a fucking tree? You would think, with that off-beat plot, the author would have been able to make up for what was lacking in other areas.
It could easily have been made less excruciating to get through this book if, say, Addie got involved in the historical events that shaped the world as we know it today. That would have been interesting. The author, however, decided to mention Frank Sinatra and Beethoven, have Addie be imprisoned in Germany for a split second before letting her be saved by the devil, and be done with it. Schwab gave herself ten years to write this book, and she still let herself and her main character gloss over the most important events.
To me, this book is just as forgettable as Addie LaRue herself. Possibly also the last time - The cat called Book is the only thing I wanted to read about Moth "Henry Strauss somebody with no interesting characteristics whatsoever " "Now, Addie is an incredibly dull character to begin with. She is self-center "Henry Strauss somebody with no interesting characteristics whatsoever " "Now, Addie is an incredibly dull character to begin with. Oct 06, Miranda Reads rated it it was amazing Shelves: audiobook , bestbooks , published Just released my Top 10 Books from BookTube Video - now that you know this one made the list, click the link to find the rest!
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View all 25 comments. The infamous book hangover. Y'all, she hurts. Everything hurts. I don't feel like I have ever been this beaten up by a book. It was literally like Schwab was taking an ice pick to my heart and slowly chipping pieces away through the entire story.
I felt the weight of it. There were times I actually had to set it down and step away. I can't be held accountable for my actions during those moments. Honestly, it's a bit of a blur. Addie LaRue is a character who has an extraordinary story to tell, yet no way to tell it. In , she entered into a Faustian bargain granting her eternal life.
The downfall, she will be forgotten by every person she ever meets, unable to do even the simplest of things, like telling someone her name. Addie flounders for years, trying to determine how best to live within the constraints of the deal. It is a struggle; nothing comes easy. Addie's only connection, the dark being who granted her wish, a being named, Luc.
These scenes of Addie trying to find her way, adapting to her new reality, were hard to read. In fact, they were some of the most melancholy scenes I have ever read.
It was gripping, beautiful and painful, all at the same time. The writing was able to elicit such empathy for Addie's position. I found it to be extremely powerful. Addie eventually develops a semi-comfortable pattern for living, until one day, in New York City, a boy in a bookstore changes everything. He remembers her. Intricately weaving together both past and present timelines, Schwab sweeps you up into a love story centuries in the making. There's tender intimacy, sacrifice and tasty bites of food for thought the entire way through.
Additionally, I loved the exploration of the power of the arts to transcend space and time. There's an underlining theme of art, in many different forms, creating a sort of timeless influence on future generations. It felt like a love letter to artistic expression and I was so into that whole vibe. Overall, I think this is a very special story.
One that will have a great and lasting impact on a lot of people. Thank you so much to the publisher, Tor Books, for providing me with a copy of this to read and review. I will never forget Addie, or her story.
Dec 25, Sofia rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Absolutely everyone. Shelves: id-marry-you-with-paper-rings , depressing , mary-sue , romance , otp , strong-female-protagonist , favorites , comfort-reads. Words can't even begin to describe the beauty of this book. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is a mesmerizing tapestry woven from heartbreak and desperation and yet, somewhere in the midst of the suffering, the pure joy of living.
This book touched my heart in places I didn't know existed. It tore open the gates of my emotions and ripped them apart mercilessly.
We follow Addie LaRue, a French woman longing for freedom, who strikes a bargain with a god named Luc. She will live forever—for a price Words can't even begin to describe the beauty of this book. She will live forever—for a price. A blink, and Addie LaRue is gone. Turn away, and she is forgotten. Her name chokes in her throat when she tries to speak it. Words she writes are erased by an invisible hand.
When she attempts to tell her story, she is silenced. Slowly, she loses hope. In her stubbornness, she refuses to give her soul to Luc, even as she begins to despair and finds herself the victim of blank stares and confused glances. Until she meets Henry Strauss, who speaks three words that change her life forever. Schwab's writing is dreamy, poetic, lyrical, melancholy—lonely. Addie LaRue is so lonely, and you can feel her sorrow with every word she speaks.
Her friendships dissolve overnight, her parents don't remember her face. And it physically pains me. No one but V. Schwab could have written such a delicate and pensive novel. What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind? Addie is a protagonist who lives on despite it all. She leaves her mark where she can, in blurry photographs and wistful song lyrics. She's not remarkable, but this works in the novel's favor. She is always forgotten; it wouldn't make sense for her to stand out.
And yet, my soul was touched by her struggles and I saw bits of myself in her. It's quiet, not showy at all, but beautiful and lyrical and personal. Schwab poured her heart and soul into this novel, and it shows. RIP my heart. View all 74 comments. To be honest, this felt a bit … well… twee. But it is a lonely thing, to be forgotten. To remember when no one else does. Everyone forget To be honest, this felt a bit … well… twee.
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