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A review by kierscrivener
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
3.0
This was a wonderfully weaved story, going between past and present. Chasing the stories of Addie's three hundred year history haunted by others' fleeting memory, every time she turns a corner or closes a door. Her twisted history with a shade of a devil and a boy three hundred years later who just wants to be loved enough and a girl three hundred years onto twenty-three who wants to be remembered.
I didn't know going into the novel that there would be such a focus on present day (in this case 2014), and knowing such would have changed my anticipation. This is a story I heard of years ago, that was shelved on the books unsold until last year when Schwab reannounced this story that had lived in her head for so long. I thought it would focus on Addie's history, her story through the centuries, which it did in parts, but mostly we saw her in the first few years of her deal and her childhood after that we skipped, ten, fifty, a hundred years at a time. I loved following her 2014 but more when she was sneaking into James' apartment or refalling in love with Sam, I liked Henry but I liked him more on his own with his friends. I liked the present less as I craved her past.
But I am a sucker for a book in a book. and I am a sucker for a clever protagonist, though I wish we had seen more that transition. I will always enjoy this story, but it is on of those solid good books that don't quite reach great for me.
I didn't know going into the novel that there would be such a focus on present day (in this case 2014), and knowing such would have changed my anticipation. This is a story I heard of years ago, that was shelved on the books unsold until last year when Schwab reannounced this story that had lived in her head for so long. I thought it would focus on Addie's history, her story through the centuries, which it did in parts, but mostly we saw her in the first few years of her deal and her childhood after that we skipped, ten, fifty, a hundred years at a time. I loved following her 2014 but more when she was sneaking into James' apartment or refalling in love with Sam, I liked Henry but I liked him more on his own with his friends. I liked the present less as I craved her past.
But I am a sucker for a book in a book. and I am a sucker for a clever protagonist, though I wish we had seen more that transition. I will always enjoy this story, but it is on of those solid good books that don't quite reach great for me.