Reviews with content warning for Alcohol - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

There were points where it felt a little too slow and I was considering lowering the score, but the end finished it up with a nice and solid 5 stars. This book is clever and original. There were so many unpredictable parts to this book, which I feel is so hard to find nowadays. I loved the complete not knowing.

Content Warnings

mightyfrenchbookworm's review against another edition

Go to review page

emotional mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

L'écriture est réellement superbe. L'autrice a le don de nous faire sentir dans le moment notamment via la description des odeurs. Surprenant. Toutefois, j'ai trouvé le début tellement lent et peu intéressant. <Spoilers>Je me suis écrié "Enfin!" à 50% i.e. au moment où on sent qu'un événement important au plot arrive enfin. L'aspect le plus intéressant était la relation entre Addie et le Démon/diable. Finalement, un livre correct qui a pris beaucoup de temps à lire et qui me laisse sur une impression d'avoir perdu un peu mon temps. Je laisse cette critique sur une citation "Que la vie, c'est toujours une minute de moins que le temps qu'on aurait voulu avoir".

Content Warnings

analenegrace's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A girl in a book club I'm in told me this was her favorite book and that she cried when she met the author, and it finally pushed me to read a book I had been meaning to for a while.

This was a beautiful read that made me feel many complicated feelings. Addie, as a character, was not the perfect heroine, she didn't always make you feel like she was doing the right thing, but her motivations were fleshed out, thought out, and clearly based in the character. She felt real. As a character, Henry was also thoughtfully written, although I wish his obvious lifelong depression had been called that because I think naming things takes some of their power, but still, his was a beautifully written tale.

Together the two characters created this beautiful love story with Addie's 300-year-long invisible life that intertwined so well with the history around her. She wasn't the main character in the history, my pet peeve in anything historical, but was, instead, a piece of many parts of history on the sidelines.

I loved the ending, I enjoyed that we didn't see Addie

beat Luc at his own game, instead, we have to hope that Addie will win

and get her final ending. Henry

writing the book, in the end, was so inventive, I always love a book inside a book plot.

This type of fantasy, especially women-led and woman-written fantasy, is always so wonderful, I only wish it wasn't reduced to tropes. I've seen this called a romance novel many times, and at the end of the day, it is many, it is everything, it is wonderful.

Content Warnings

throwback682's review against another edition

Go to review page

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I was so scared to finish this book. I almost quit because I couldn’t bear the idea of the sad ending I imagined.

I’m so glad that I stuck it out. The ending wasn’t what I expected at all (although some might see through it more easily) and it wasn’t happy but it was very satisfying. Henry’s last pages had me near tears.

I think the concept of the plot is really creative, and the author keeps track of a thousand little details of Addie’s curse that could’ve created a thousand plot holes.

At times it was predictable, but not in a way that spoiled my enjoyment.

I knew almost right away that Henry had also made a deal, but there were plenty of details I didn’t foresee, too.

This book made me want to savor every moment of life and love. It was entertaining but also thought provoking and heart-fire stoking.

Content Warnings

More...