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A review by votesforwomen
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
4.0
I could never read only literary fiction, but every now and then I find a book in this style and it captures me.
This book felt rather like an adult Book Thief to me. A girl out of time, watched by an immortal being. As such, it suffers the same fate the Book Thief suffered from my hands. Zusak’s work was my first foray into YA, and I was appalled by the amount of swearing. Now that no longer bothers me. This book? This was my first true foray into pure adult, and my asexual self is unable to get past how much onscreen Graphicness there was. Is it a weakness of the book? Perhaps.
But the ending. It broke me. It was so beautifully done and I adored it.
Also: third person present tense is quickly becoming my favorite writing style.
This book felt rather like an adult Book Thief to me. A girl out of time, watched by an immortal being. As such, it suffers the same fate the Book Thief suffered from my hands. Zusak’s work was my first foray into YA, and I was appalled by the amount of swearing. Now that no longer bothers me. This book? This was my first true foray into pure adult, and my asexual self is unable to get past how much onscreen Graphicness there was. Is it a weakness of the book? Perhaps.
But the ending. It broke me. It was so beautifully done and I adored it.
Also: third person present tense is quickly becoming my favorite writing style.