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A review by acourtoffairytale
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
2.0
3✨
I was so ready for this to be a 5-star read, but honestly, V.E. Schwab’s writing style just isn't for me. It's SO. REPETITIVE. Addie did x thing, but wouldn’t learn the consequences until x amount of time later. Addie remembered x place, x place, and x place. That's basically her whole writing style.
I could only connect with Addie in the sense that it must be lonely to live 300 years and have no one remember you, and yeah, okay, I cried a little bit when she said goodbye to Henry.
A little bit —keywords—because on my crying scale, watery eyes and one single tear aren't enough to call this a masterpiece.
This book has so many pages and yet so little plot. It had no business being this long; we could have wrapped it up in 350 pages.
I predicted as soon as we met Henry that he was cursed too, and later I predicted AGAIN that Luc was letting them date just to mess with Addie. The ending is kind of... rushed? Like, I had to slog through pages of Addie running around Paris, but we only get a page and a half to explain her new deal?
Henry is an okay guy, like he seems decent, but the kind of guy you meet and, ironically, forget about eventually because he’s boring. To be honest, at some point, I thought Henry was Luc in disguise trying to get closer to Addie, and I wish that were true because it would be a lot more interesting.
In the end, I wish I liked it more. I wish this was the masterpiece everyone talks about and I could just put it on my favorites shelf. But honestly, it’s disappointing, and I don't think I'll be reading another V.E. Schwab book anytime soon.
I was so ready for this to be a 5-star read, but honestly, V.E. Schwab’s writing style just isn't for me. It's SO. REPETITIVE. Addie did x thing, but wouldn’t learn the consequences until x amount of time later. Addie remembered x place, x place, and x place. That's basically her whole writing style.
I could only connect with Addie in the sense that it must be lonely to live 300 years and have no one remember you, and yeah, okay, I cried a little bit when she said goodbye to Henry.
A little bit —keywords—because on my crying scale, watery eyes and one single tear aren't enough to call this a masterpiece.
This book has so many pages and yet so little plot. It had no business being this long; we could have wrapped it up in 350 pages.
I predicted as soon as we met Henry that he was cursed too, and later I predicted AGAIN that Luc was letting them date just to mess with Addie. The ending is kind of... rushed? Like, I had to slog through pages of Addie running around Paris, but we only get a page and a half to explain her new deal?
Henry is an okay guy, like he seems decent, but the kind of guy you meet and, ironically, forget about eventually because he’s boring. To be honest, at some point, I thought Henry was Luc in disguise trying to get closer to Addie, and I wish that were true because it would be a lot more interesting.
In the end, I wish I liked it more. I wish this was the masterpiece everyone talks about and I could just put it on my favorites shelf. But honestly, it’s disappointing, and I don't think I'll be reading another V.E. Schwab book anytime soon.