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A review by purple_reads
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
5.0
I think I fell in love with Addie from the moment she sat down and played the piano in the first chapter.
She is broken, yet mended and shattered yet fixed. Mad and sane. Messy but tidy in all the places she needs to be.
I cried.
I cried a lot.
Which wasn’t something I had been expecting since I knew how it ended, but the context changed the way I viewed it.
I thought it was wonderful, yet sad and sorrowful, full of grief and loss but passionate and daring.
The writing was good, a tad too tedious for my liking, but it hit the spots where it hurts and left me with an aching heart.
Addie connects with me uniquely because she is so full of hope despite the losses she has endured. She doesn’t back down and she doesn’t want to give in. She wants to live. She wants to be free.
And that is something that I love about this book — the overarching theme of living while you can because time runs out always a moment too soon.
Yet, I loved Henry too. He is the fear of time consuming you, the insecurities that stop you from living the life you were meant to have. But he is also the transformation, the change, the revelation and that pinnacle of understanding. That moment when you realise that life is worth living because there are good things out there, even if you have to wait years to find them, they are there and they are amazing and they are magical.
And I think Luc is time itself. The one thing that creeps up when you dread it the most but feels just as much envy and passion as the light does for hope and joy. Because where there is light, there is darkness. It always rises to create the balance.
Stars ~ 4.5
She is broken, yet mended and shattered yet fixed. Mad and sane. Messy but tidy in all the places she needs to be.
I cried.
I cried a lot.
Which wasn’t something I had been expecting since I knew how it ended, but the context changed the way I viewed it.
I thought it was wonderful, yet sad and sorrowful, full of grief and loss but passionate and daring.
The writing was good, a tad too tedious for my liking, but it hit the spots where it hurts and left me with an aching heart.
Addie connects with me uniquely because she is so full of hope despite the losses she has endured. She doesn’t back down and she doesn’t want to give in. She wants to live. She wants to be free.
And that is something that I love about this book — the overarching theme of living while you can because time runs out always a moment too soon.
Yet, I loved Henry too. He is the fear of time consuming you, the insecurities that stop you from living the life you were meant to have. But he is also the transformation, the change, the revelation and that pinnacle of understanding. That moment when you realise that life is worth living because there are good things out there, even if you have to wait years to find them, they are there and they are amazing and they are magical.
And I think Luc is time itself. The one thing that creeps up when you dread it the most but feels just as much envy and passion as the light does for hope and joy. Because where there is light, there is darkness. It always rises to create the balance.
Stars ~ 4.5