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A review by pebbletown
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
It’s not really fair competition when one of your love interests is an endlessly powerful, hot, immortal Mephistopheles who is obsessed with you, and the other is Joe from You if he had depression. I’m sorry!
Anyway Schwab’s writing has never really done it for me, but by the third act this did grab me, and for being so long I did get through it pretty fast. The whole time reading though, I just felt wistful over how much I would have adored this in high school…it’s giving The Night Circus, maybe even The Book Thief a little. Very dreamlike and romantic (in the Victorian sense) and a little in love with itself/the concept of literature.
Now I’m old and and it is just fine.
Anyway Schwab’s writing has never really done it for me, but by the third act this did grab me, and for being so long I did get through it pretty fast. The whole time reading though, I just felt wistful over how much I would have adored this in high school…it’s giving The Night Circus, maybe even The Book Thief a little. Very dreamlike and romantic (in the Victorian sense) and a little in love with itself/the concept of literature.
Now I’m old and and it is just fine.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual harassment