Great premise squandered by an uninteresting protagonist with shallow goals. By around page 70, I was hoping for a tragic (in the style of the Greeks) ending for Addie.

The lyrical writing was affecting, but the plot, characters, tension, romance, arcs, and ending were not.

Not for me.

This Book has been sitting on myself for years and I have been daunted about picking this one up after hearing so many people love this one and leaving rave reviews. Take 1 weekend in February and a Buddy read gave me the perfect opportunity to finally pick this one up and dive into the world of Addie & what a book it was! I know that this one will stay with me for many months and years to come and a story was beautifully poetic.

Addie LaRue, a French girl who was born in the 1700s. She was always warned not to pray to the gods who answer when it gets dark. But on a desperate night, she does it and she gets an answer. Addie ends up making a pact with the devil: now she will live forever, but she will be forgotten by everyone once they look away. One day 300 years later, a boy says the 3 words that will simply change everything “I remember You”

What a book this is, Its full of reflections, life and humanity. I felt honoured to be able to get a glimpse into Addie’s life. I know that there was going to be a few twists and turns along the way, but I did not see the final one coming at all, but I can say that it felt right and the perfect way to end a book, Am I going to say more… No, I’m going to say no more  

Now I can only say that Addie LaRue deserves to be read, known and remembered. It is a book so real, but at the same time so full of magic, that you will never forget.

need 3 to 5 business days, or maybe 300 years, to recover from this book. this book brilliantly explains how desperation to fulfill one's deepest desire can blind humans to reason, making them forget that everything comes with a price to pay.

and once again, v. e. schwab makes me fall in love with another beautifully toxic villain

I need 10 to 15 days to recover (or 300 years actually :’))

Took me a while to get through but so so so worth it

A wonderfully bright story with a great central character. The life and breadth of it is really fascinating. The story does take a predictable turn at the end, although I'm not sure what other ending it could have had. I liked this book and would recommend it for a fun and relaxing read.

ending so good it broke my heart and gave me hope but i would have believed in luc, would have fallen in love, so I THOUGHT IT WAS going in that direction, which it did… kind of??

one of the books i can never reread

Unpopular opinion : I REALLY hate Addie LaRue
#justice_for_the_devil

i love Luc

This is such a beautiful book, each sentence is pure poetry!!! I cried so much during it and related to Addie on some many different levels, I feel like this book mirrored a part of my soul to myself. I literally can’t stress it enough, everyone should read this beautiful masterpiece!!!!

This book was absolutely beautiful and enthralling. It has been on my TBR for the last four years and I wish I had read it sooner. Wow.

Reading this book was a wonderful experience. I wish this story could’ve lasted forever. This books makes me want to cry but I don’t know for which emotion. Truly amazing!

I really loved this book. I thought I had predicted the ending, but I was wrong. I'm left with so many questions but in a good way. I have absolutely no complaints.

ouch. this hurt. a lot

OH MY GOD. My heart hurts. Estoy enamorada de los personajes, de Luc, de Henry y sobre todo de Addie. Me encantó conocerla, vivir con ella trescientos años, sufrir junto a ella, enojarme junto a ella y enamorarme junto a ella. Addie LaRue merece la pena.

DNF? DNF. DNF... *sighs* I REALLY really tried to like this book i even had bought this in different editions that's how much esteem i had for it. I was so READY to tackle this heart-wrenching stand-alone I've been only hearing GREAT things about. It was supposed to be exceptional. It was supposed to be enticing, riveting until the last page. It was supposed to be gut-wrenchingly dramatic and tragic AND YET! And yet... To me, when reading this, it felt like one of those unexpected plane crashes due to technical failure. It was bound to crash, no one expected it from the three first chapters and the plane couldn't be saved by anyone other than the pilot, aka the author. This was my FIRST VE SHWAB book give or take; and I'm quite disappointed. Wait that isn't the right word.... CONFUSED!!! I don't understand why this book got so MUCH hype from booktube AND tiktok. Like they just sang this book's praises and I fell for it. THE most INFURIATING of factors (that isn't a spoiler) is that THERE IS NO DIVERSITY WHAT SO EVER!!!! Not oNlY tHaT, but our stale bread main character had 300 YEARS to simply EXIST and never thought to herself: "hey, I should probably go visit the other part of the world someday. You know the part that has been colonised and exploited by white people all the while i was lamenting about being lonely." Oh also did i mention? oUR STale BreaD MC had teh AUDACITY to 'travel' but only to europe and the US. *Ahem* ma'am I think you forgot that the world isn't composed of colonisers. You're aware of that? Oh well, my bad. Let's talk about actual CONTENTS of this book. The writing for example. It didn't seem flowery at all, like... AT ALL; It was AS stale as our maincharacter or even more. I know the author wanted this book to be all metaphorical and allegorical but DAMN she made every small thing seem like a HUGE ASS EVENT. Like calm down girl. I feel like this review is more of a rant and i don't have the neural capacity to organise my thoughts just yet so this 'rant' will stay as it is: choatic and confusing. (just like the book! yay) To wrap this all up with out spoiling anything let me just ask these questions... Who is Addie Larue? Like really. WHO THE F*CK IS SHE? Cause after 200 ish pages i just gave up.

Ok but why was the devil hot, should I seek therapy

I cried. Too good. V.E. Schwab always nails it.

všichni asi addiin příběh trochu známe, protože poslední rok se kniha objevovala úplně všude; dívka, která je nesmrtelná, háček je ten, že si jí nikdo nikdy nezapamatuje... tedy dokud jednoho dne nepotká henryho. zní to krásně, že? myšlenka je nádherná, strašně moc jsem se na to těšila, všude jsem slyšela samé pochvaly, a tak jsem se do knihy taky pustila, ale.. no, četla jsem jí 20 dní. bylo to neskutečně pomalé, místy nudné. děj přeskakoval ze současné doby do různých období, kde jsme sledovali addie a její smíření se s neviditelností - ale vlastně se tam vůbec nic nedělo. tento problém jsem přehlédla - řekla jsem si, že toto dílo nebude o ději, jako spíše o nějakém ponaučení nebo myšlence, kterou nám autorka chce předat - tu jsem tam ale taky nenašla. celý sloh je napsaný poeticky, ale já jsem v tom pořád viděla fakt, že takhle autorka normálně nepíše a snaží se spíš experimentovat (nehledě na fráze, které mě postupem času začaly rozčilovat - např. 'zahlédla čajovnu a připomnělo jí to Istanbul, Hong Kong a další exotické město, o kterém už se v knize nikdy víc nezmíní' a nebo 'jednou zažije tohle a tohle a tamto, ale teď ještě ne'). když už jsme u té exotiky, v 500 stránkové knize se pohybujeme pořád buď jen ve Francii a nebo New Yorku. sem tam v Itálii. proč se autorka nezaměřila na ostatní kultury? proč nepopsala to, jak addie ovlivnily, nebo jak addie ovlivnila je? proč je addie pořád tvrdohlavá holka, kterou byla před 400 lety? proč se v knize autorka nezmiňuje o různých důležitých meznících? jak je možné, že v nich addie nehraje žádnou roli? poslední věc, která mi vadila, byla romantika. se vztahem se mohlo vymyslet tolik nevšedností, ale on byl... nezáživný. henry byla podle mého názoru dobrá postava, které se ale nedostalo kvůli bezcharakterové addie moc prostoru, a to mě mrzí. ✩ nemám to srdce knize dát špatné hodnocení - moje názory pochází i z recenzí, takže to beru spíš taky trochu jako nějaké 'ovlivnění okolím'. knize tedy nechám 4*/5*, i když bych jí nejradši ještě půlhvězdu ubrala - obálka a myšlenka supr, ale provedení až tak moc ne. ✩ 4*/5*

This was the book that I DNF last 2021 but then I picked it up again after finishing A Little Life and had no regrets doing so. I feel like this is one of those books that I will always remember, from the story to the characters. I loved the book and how poetically written some scenes are; like the scene of Remy and Addie. I like how intimate it was but I did not feel the cringe while reading it. But I am rating it 3.8 since I am somehow not expecting that the ending would turn out that way. I just don't like how the plot was given, like there's no specific rules about the deals with Luke and then towards the end, it turns out that the deal was bent that way just to give that plot. If V.E. Shwab would release a book 2, then the ending would turn out to be a great starting point. On the other hand, it being somehow open ended would help release the creative juices of the readers, like we could imagine Addie doing everything to make Luc go mad. I'd always vouch for the sincerity of Remy and Henry Strauss. I like how the author put the story of Remy and Addie, like it was a layover before continuing the long flight and it was a great slowdown moment. Henry on the other hand for me is like your temporary companion during the flight who you would feel attached to but since the flight won't take forever, you'd have to say good bye and just hope that he would always remember everything about the journey. Some of my favorite quotes: • If you walk on other people's steps, you cannot make your own way. You cannot leave a mark. • She cannot erase the memories of those other nights—so she decides to become a palimpsest, to let Remy write over the other lines. • And even though he's safe, both feet firmly on the ground, Henry feels himself begin to fall • When truth is not an option, fiction takes on a mind of its own.

Love V.E. Schwab!!!! I did the audio book with this one and was so glad I did. I felt like it pulled me into the story more and it felt more magical. Honestly nothing bad to say. One of my favorite books of the year!

Wow. i have no words. just typing this i’m tearing up again. i sobbed at the end. this was so beautiful and heartbreaking… i can’t think about anything but how sad i am😭🤣

It's beautifully well-written. Absolutely fell in love with the characters, even Luc himself. Eventually. To have been able to see/read Luc's POV, would have been kinda nice. It's interesting how The Invisible Life of Addie Larue ended, did not expect it to be honest but all in all, the book, I genuinely enjoyed hands down.