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frasersimons 's review for:
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by V.E. Schwab
DNF’d a quarter of the way in. I wasn’t super into the other books by this author but gave this a shot because I liked the concept a lot. The character is also likeable and it’s for a great hook but almost nothing happens for 100 pages, it retreads the exact same group multiple times.
It’ll be 2014 and you find out something about her and then it’s 1714 and you find out... the exact same thing about her all over again. There’s some contrast of circumstance but it really bugged me. In conjunction with the narrative voice, which is really odd with perspectives, I just couldn’t get into it at all. Usually I jump off 50 pages in and I more than doubled it for this one to see if it got interesting.
It’s charming and I think well written for what it’s going for, just very much against my grain, I guess.
It’ll be 2014 and you find out something about her and then it’s 1714 and you find out... the exact same thing about her all over again. There’s some contrast of circumstance but it really bugged me. In conjunction with the narrative voice, which is really odd with perspectives, I just couldn’t get into it at all. Usually I jump off 50 pages in and I more than doubled it for this one to see if it got interesting.
It’s charming and I think well written for what it’s going for, just very much against my grain, I guess.