The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, Special Edition

did not like writing style, did not like characters. will confess i skipped ahead and read a significant section of the end bc i wanted to see if it was worth continuing on. decided no.

This book was nice to read.
It set me thinking about immortality. How would it be to live hundreds of years, if nobody can remember you?

A fun read, but I would have ended it a bit earlier. Parts of her journey seemed thin or rushed like learning thievery or the difficulties of traveling with her curse, but everything that was included advanced the story and those things wouldn’t have done that.

The premise was interesting and I went along with it for a long time, but then it shifted to a love story and I just didn’t care. Don’t sell your soul. And don’t be tempted to fall in love with the being you sold your soul to. And for the love of everything, don’t assume he doesn’t always know everything. And above all, ffs, don’t ask to live forever.

This book was fine, I can see why people really liked it. It's well written and the plot is solid, but I found the picture perfect artsy Brooklyn courtship tedious, I didn't find either of the main characters all that compelling, and the tropes it relies on a little uninteresting. I was disappointed by how lacking in oddness or eccentricity it was, how credible but unremarkable the characters are.