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halliot's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, and Suicide attempt
brogancha's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Rape, Sexual content, Grief, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Alcohol
esme_may's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Alcohol
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Minor: Cancer and Child death
mary_stormageddon's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
todorjelena's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I don't know how I feel about the art and art history elements. They sometimes feel like they were just thrown in there as filler.
For a person who has lived for 300 years she has maintained a pretty limited worldview. I find it odd that after being alive for 3 centuries and all her talk of loving to read stories and learn as much about the world as possible she has only learned some European languages and traveled to a handful of European countries and the US.
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting
brittaneenash's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
- As someone who fears death & the thought of missing out on my life, Addie's choices & actions throughout the book make so much sense to me. She's an entirely relatable character (though there are times where I definitely didn't want her to be relatable), who just felt so real to me despite the epic circumstances she's been thrust into because of the choices she's made.
- The personification of the devil? Luc? Perfection. It felt so close to the biblical adaption of the devil: charming, cunning, entirely too irresistible for mere mortals. Because of this, his relationship with Addie is portrayed perfectly.
- Henry Strauss. Henry fucking Strauss. I feel like that's all this point needs to say, but I'll add more. Though I predicted what would happen with his story, I found it just as intriguing as Addie's. I was utterly hooked from the moment we met Henry, until the moment their story together ended. As I've said about both Addie and Luc, he felt so undeniably real, so relatable in ways that you mightn't want him to be. All of the characters in this novel are executed perfectly, but Henry felt particularly so.
- The entire ending of the book had me bawling. Not a lot of books make me cry in the way this one did. It was equal parts the relatability of not being ready to let something go but knowing that you have to, & the beautiful writing style Schwab seems to have perfected. I don't often buy the physical copies of audiobooks that I listen to, but this one will be an exception to that rule. I will be adding it to my personal collection to annotate as soon as possible.
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Death, Mental illness, and Sexual content
Minor: Death of parent
bookycnidaria's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: War
magic_multicolored_miracle's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
That is the question at the heart of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. The novel follows a girl who trades her soul, and unknowingly the ability to be remembered, to a man who might be the devil or might be a Old God in exchange for an immortal life of freedom.
Full of romance and art and clever turns, the novel starts slow but soon builds into a crescendo. Alternating chapters between her modern life in New York City in 2014 where she meets and falls in love with the enigma of Henry Strauss and flashes of the life she lived over the last 300 years, mostly tangled with "anniversaries" with Luc, the being that she promised her soul to, the book does an excellent job of telling two stories twined into one. And though it is a complete piece on it's own, the story coming to a beautifully bittersweet ending, it teases a third at the close, promising that forever goes on and there is still hope yet.
It does not shy away from the horrors facing a woman alone through history, but reminds the reader that Addie is clever and strong and will make it through, and that no matter where and when she is, there are beautiful things to be find when she looks.
A definite must read for fans of trickster fae tales, doomed love, and the timeless power of art and stories.
Graphic: Death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Stalking, Suicide attempt, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Confinement, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Pandemic/Epidemic
ericius's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Abandonment
Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting
Minor: Mental illness and Panic attacks/disorders
notjust_irene's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, and Suicide attempt