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A review by whimsicallyreading
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
2.0
2.5 stars.
My my, I felt like dragging myself out of this book. Adeline is basically your Pinterest white girl with freckles and romanticized life who wakes up to apartments with romantic views of the city. For someone who has been living for three hundred years, Adeline lacks of personality. The love interest, Henry, is your basic white boy wanting to be loved. Kinda disappointed with his truth because I really thought it could be more complex.
I don't like how the setting was heavily centralized on European countries, mainly France. Was expecting some diversity here and there. We didn't even get to New York until 1900ish and God I expected it to be something huge but somehow the "great" journey turned out to be nothing exciting.
Some parts are getting repetitive, especially with the rhyming poetic writing (to which I am giving these stars the most, it is pretty). Like, God, I get it, Luc. You want to grow trees upon everyone you're taking in. Okay.
My my, I felt like dragging myself out of this book. Adeline is basically your Pinterest white girl with freckles and romanticized life who wakes up to apartments with romantic views of the city. For someone who has been living for three hundred years, Adeline lacks of personality. The love interest, Henry, is your basic white boy wanting to be loved. Kinda disappointed with his truth because I really thought it could be more complex.
I don't like how the setting was heavily centralized on European countries, mainly France. Was expecting some diversity here and there. We didn't even get to New York until 1900ish and God I expected it to be something huge but somehow the "great" journey turned out to be nothing exciting.
Some parts are getting repetitive, especially with the rhyming poetic writing (to which I am giving these stars the most, it is pretty). Like, God, I get it, Luc. You want to grow trees upon everyone you're taking in. Okay.