The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

Serie/Series: Nej/No.
Författare/Author: V.E. Schwab.
Genre: Fantasy.
Språk/Language: Engelska/English.
Sidor/Pages: 541.

(English below)

Handling: Addie är en 23-årig kvinna som bor i en fransk liten byn på 1700-talet. Hon drömmer om att resa och uppleva världen. Men livet i byn är rätt utstakad, speciellt för kvinnor. De ska gifta sig och föda barn. När tiden är inne för Addie att gifta sig får hon panik och gör en pakt med mörkret.

I 300 år har Addie vandrat på jorden utan att bli sedd och ihågkommen. Hon gör allt hon kan för att lämna spår efter sig, men hon kan inte skapa något. Däremot kan hon inspirera och påverka andra.
Plötsligt möter hon Henry i en bokhandel och till skillnad från alla andra minns han henne. Det är början på en spirande kärlekshistoria. Men alla val har konsekvenser...

Min åsikt om boken: Den här boken har ju varit rätt hypad på instagram så jag blev definitivt nyfiken. Jag gillade "The Near Witch" av samma författare väldigt mycket men har tyvärr inte hittat någon bok som matchat den sedan dess. Jag hoppades väl att den här boken skulle göra det, men tyvärr inte. Det här var bokversionen av "slow cooking" i princip. Den är så långsam och seg. Det kändes ibland som en guidebok till New York och jag förstod inte det djupare syftet med boken. Varför ville författaren berätta den här historien? Handlingen var inte speciellt romantisk eller spännande utan kändes mest som en lunkande häst. Jag hade hellre fått följa med Addie genom åren (istället för korta små tillbakablickar) än hennes tid med Henry. Den enda gången jag upplevde någon spänning eller att karaktärerna verkligen kom till liv var när Addie träffade Luc. Annars kändes allt ganska platt. Så jag kan tyvärr inte riktigt förstå allt beröm boken har fått. Handlingen kunde definitivt ha varit minst 100 sidor kortare och det var kanske de sista 50 sidorna som jag kände att det verkligen hände nånting. Den var helt ok att läsa men inte så mycket mer än så.

I betyg får den 2.5 av 5💀

Mitt favoritcitat från boken:

"What she needs are stories.
Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.
Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems and films. And books.
Books, she found, are a way to live a thousand lives - or to find strength in a very long one."
- Sid 31.

"I am not some genie, bound to your whim". He pushes off the tree. "Nor Am I some petty forest spirit, content with granting favors for mortal trinkets. I am stronger than your god and older than your devil. I am the darkness between starts, and the roots beneath the earth. I am promise, and potential, and when it comes to playing games, I divine the rules, I set the pieces, and I choose when to play. And tonight I say no."
- Sid 47

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Story: Addie is a 23 year old woman living in a small french village in the 1700's. She's dreaming of traveling and experience the world. But life in the village is pretty determined, especially for women. They are supposed to get married and give birth. When the time has come for Addie to get married she panics and makes a deal with the darkness.

For 300 years Addie has walked the earth without beeing seen or remembered. She does whatever she can to leave a mark, but she can't create anything. What she can do, however, is to inspire and influence others.
One day she meets Henry in a bookshop and unlike others he remembers her. That's the beginning of a budding love story. But all choices has consequences...


My opinion about the book: This book as been pretty hyped up on instagram so I got curious. I liked "The Near Witch" by the same author very much but have not found a book that could match it since then. I was hoping this book could do that, but unfortunately not. This was the book version of "slow cooking" pretty much. It's very slow and tardy. It sometimes felt like a guide book to New York and I didn't get the deeper puropse of the book. Why did the author want to tell us this story?
The plot wasn't expecially romantic or suspenseful. It felt like a strolling horse. I would have rather been there with Addie through all the years (instead of the short flashbacks) rather than her time with Henry. The only time I felt any tension or like the characters really came to life were when Addie met Luc. Besides those times everything felt very flat. So I can't understand all the praise the book got. The book could have been atleast 100 pages shorter and it was maybe the last 50 pages where I felt like something actually happened. It was alright to read but not much more than that.

I give it 2.5 of 5💀

My favorite quote from the book:

"What she needs are stories.
Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget.
Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems and films. And books.
Books, she found, are a way to live a thousand lives - or to find strength in a very long one."
- Page 31.

"I am not some genie, bound to your whim". He pushes off the tree. "Nor Am I some petty forest spirit, content with granting favors for mortal trinkets. I am stronger than your god and older than your devil. I am the darkness between starts, and the roots beneath the earth. I am promise, and potential, and when it comes to playing games, I divine the rules, I set the pieces, and I choose when to play. And tonight I say no."
- Page 47