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A review by gweenbean_
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
2.0
the prose was so pretty but that's about where the good things ended. sometimes it felt like there was so much prose and internal monologue that no actual plot was moving forward outside of addie's very very repetitive self-reflections throughout the book.
in the end the characters fell flat. addie felt very "not like other girls" in a way that was annoying and almost monochromatic to me. henry was very "woe is me" in a way that i couldn't really get behind. both characters are conventionally attractive white people who make their issues everyone else's fault. not saying that their circumstances are entirely their doing but it was just so weird to me that not once did they recognize the privilege they had to move through the world the way they did. henry's issue with being too handsome or whatever and addie's issue of being a forgotten muse felt so unimportant because it's like... addie literally lived through hundreds of years of historical events and that's what you're choosing to focus on...
SPOILERS AHEAD
also the weird godlike death shadow figure whatever falling in love with addie was so sudden like it felt like there was absolutely zero chemistry between them until maybe two thirds of the way in.
in the end the characters fell flat. addie felt very "not like other girls" in a way that was annoying and almost monochromatic to me. henry was very "woe is me" in a way that i couldn't really get behind. both characters are conventionally attractive white people who make their issues everyone else's fault. not saying that their circumstances are entirely their doing but it was just so weird to me that not once did they recognize the privilege they had to move through the world the way they did. henry's issue with being too handsome or whatever and addie's issue of being a forgotten muse felt so unimportant because it's like... addie literally lived through hundreds of years of historical events and that's what you're choosing to focus on...
SPOILERS AHEAD
also the weird godlike death shadow figure whatever falling in love with addie was so sudden like it felt like there was absolutely zero chemistry between them until maybe two thirds of the way in.