Loved itI loved it so much and I weeped. I baldled. I sobbed.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (2015)
Others: Mostly positive 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.
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- 9780765387578
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- 456 pages
Genres: fantasy, literary fiction
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Loved itI love Addie LaRue. I feel like when it first came out I was really hyped about it and then a bunch of other people read it and hated it.
Loved itI love Addy Laroo and I have very mixed to mediocre feelings about Bury Our Bones and Midnight Soil, which is her most recent release.
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Loved itI've read Addie the Roo. I've read Vicious. I've read Vengeful. ... I really enjoy her books.
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Loved itI liked Addy Laroo and so we'll see if I like this. That's all I've read of Victoria Schwab.
Loved itIt was really good. I read a bunch of V E Schwab books back in the day. like the darker shade of whatever. I really liked all of them. I thought that like her writing is always really cool. I liked her vibes. The writing was beautiful.
Not a fanI've read a lot of V. E. Schwab books over the years, so I'm usually a big fan of her writing style, her characters, her vibes. But I will say The Invisible Life of like Addy Laroo wasn't my favorite of hers.
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Loved itthere were so many books in her video that I love books like funny story just for the summer and Addy laroo like can we say taste all together now taste.
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MixedI recognize this book does have many issues and I wish actually it had been a series so that this could have this idea could have been fleshed out a little bit more but I did enjoy it
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Loved itit's an excellent book among many other excellent books by V Schwab
MixedI actually did not like very much I didn't dislike it but I just I thought it was okay nowhere near her best work though
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Loved italthough this age Gap is by far the largest one that we've discussed so far I also have very few problems with it because Addie is also 300 years old like if you yourself also have been around for centuries at some point the age Gap doesn't become that big of a problem right
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Loved itI'm a huge romantic I love this story it's kind of all the way back to the 1700s where a woman is cursed or blessed with immortality but here's the rub no one can recognize her
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Not a fanI hated this book also this one again had some cool Concepts the main protagonist I did not like her she really had a giant chip on her shoulder I'm going to put that in the kill it with fire category
MixedI'm also very conflicted by because the first half I was kind of bored and then it ended up like I had a lot of ups and downs with this story
Loved itthis is also her work I mean the each wall wrote this amazing fantastic phenomenal top-tier favorite book of all time of my book by Julia Willen gave it these spectacular performance in the audiobook
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Loved iti love this book so much
Loved itmy favorite thing about the invisible life of addy larue is the writing i cannot stress to you enough how stunningly beautiful it is
Loved iti loved this novel i fell in love with this novel and in reading this novel it was so beautifully written and immersive
Loved iti absolutely loved this book it was fantastic you have to read it at some point in your life by far my favorite book from this author
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Loved itmy favorite schwab book the best thing she's ever done her magnum opus