A review by booking_along
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

5.0

....it’s a lonely thing, to be forgotten.


this book is love and hate and heartbreak and hope and lust and rage.
it’s frustration and patience.

it’s filled with characters that are too relatable and utterly other worldly at the same time.

i loved that we had three completely different characters that all somehow worked together.
someone with all the time.
someone who has no measurement of time.
and someone who’s running out of time.

two people cursed, one that did it.
it shouldn’t work or be good or make sense.

but it does!

i have no idea how schwab did it but it just all works to beautifully together!

i felt a strange companionship with both addie and henry.
how you want more, the world but have no idea how to get there.
how you want to be something, anything but not what others expect.
how expectations of others feel smothering and it feels inescapable.
how it feels as it time is this strange concept that can slow done and race away, both at the same time.

i could -well not understand because i don’t think even Luc understands himself- but feel with Luc in so many moments.

i loved this book.
the writing was stunning.
the characters beautiful.
the plot fantastic.

i loved the ending.
it was heartbreaking but perfect for the story.
it was just perfect. the entire book is so well done.