The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
kinda boring, probably would have liked it a little more if this hasn’t been incessantly hyped for years and years and I got sick of hearing about it and now I’m even more baffled that so many people have lost their minds in love with this kind of boring book. 😐
Recommended: eh
for a slow character study and thoughts about ethics, humanity, legacy, etc.

Summary

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.
Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.
But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

Thoughts
Meh. As is usually the case, this book does not deserve the hype as far as I’m concerned. The discussions and questions you can have during this book are interesting if you have people to do so with, but if I had read this on my own and not as a buddy read (thanks Nicole!!!) I absolutely would have stopped by 30% of the way through when nothing had happened yet. I’d say it wasn’t really until 65% of the way that there was some kind of tension or issue that appeared. Up to that it was just kind of looking at their daily lives, which admittedly bored the heck out of me.
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