Mr Henry was also a mood board emo boy for people to uwu about, with curly hair( you will be reminded A LOT ABOUT THAT FACT) and a sad past, and cinnamon roll qualities, ugh just count me out at this point. Home girl REALLY NEEDED HER HORIZON BROADENED. Like don’t white people have fucking GLOBE? Like a girl wanting to live and see, and go on adventures, makes a bargain with the DEVIL, l ives for three hundred years and only sees that side of the world EXCUSE ME WHAT? the only places that the story flashbacks to are France, Germany, London and chicago. Home girl hasn’t even left the americas or the europes. See that CONTINENT(s), our girl lives for THREE HUNDRED YEARS, and guess all the cOnTiNeNts she has seen. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, Okay heres the line from the blurb from goodreads: Which i thought was what the people of switzerland were called but nah our addie made it a language. She also knows a bunch of european / american centric languages, ( LETS THE WHITES REIGN), she knows latin and french and german and this and that and blah And something called SWISS.
She is choked full of “moodboard qualities” thrown at her to make her something of a perfect recipe oh art lover, adventure seeker, cat lover, movie/ theater enthusiast, book lover. makes a bargain and than takes us through a tedious depression session of her life like “omg no one remembers me.” ahhhhhhhhhh! At first she has my empathy but than it gets annoying. It okay to want to be different, i know you want to break out of constraint of the society, but than to throw garbage over others people life choices like ugh.Īnyway that aside, she wants to live…. She hates the life everyone has, finds negatives with everyone around her, if someone wants to be married and have kids, she criticizes them in a condescending tones. From the page we meet her we see her wanting to have something more than herself, trying to break out of the mold that is around her. Let’s start with Addie, a girl who want to do more, see more and have more adventures.
I had so many problems with this books, i have no idea how to even begin with this review…… The characters, Whenever I put it down, I didn’t really wanna pick it back up. ? It took me effing 14 days to finish this book.
Here began my journey with The Invisible Life of Addie LaUre…. While paying the price of immortality by being doomed so no one remembering her.” It sounded intriguing and fun.
Having adventures and travelling across continents, exploring art and history. “I mean making a deal with the devil and getting to live forever. As usual I was really excited for this one. I really love v e schwab’s books because they always have some of the most unique and interesting concepts.
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.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Genre: Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Adult Fantasy. A Story You Will Never Forget.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. Schwab’s genre-defying tour de force.Ī Life No One Will Remember. 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. Recommended by Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, NPR, Slate, and Oprah MagazineīOOK OF THE YEAR (2020) FINALIST-Book of The Month ClubĪ “Best Of” Book From: Oprah Mag * CNN * Amazon * Amazon Editors * NPR * Goodreads * Bustle * PopSugar * BuzzFeed * Barnes & Noble * Kirkus Reviews * Lambda Literary * Nerdette * The Nerd Daily * Polygon * Library Reads * io9 * Smart Bitches Trashy Books * LiteraryHub * Medium * BookBub * The Mary Sue * Chicago Tribune * NY Daily News * SyFy Wire * * Bookish * Book Riot * Library Reads Voter Favorite *