The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

This ook was a book club suggestion that the library finally had delivered. It was another one of those books that I just wasn't expecting to love. Unfortunately, every free moment I had, I spent in this book.

My only complaints....
I wanted Addie to be less breathtaking. I wanted her to be less sex object and more engaged with actually living a free life. She mentions all the amazing things she had done and seen but the focus of freedom in the narrative was completely on sexual freedom. Granted, sexual freedom is a huge freedom for someone born in her time... it just wasn't enough for me. We didn't even get that awesome spy scene until the very end.

And how does she go to the bathroom?!? I was told this was explained in the book but I must have missed it somehow. Why is she not forgotten if someone walks in front of her to get around a crowd? And the part where someone is making her ice cream in the other room.... how does he not come back in to a stranger in his living room?

I think the story would have been incredibly different had Addie been a non-conventional, French peasant girl. The rounded, forgettable girl that isn't going to be able to bed the millionaire because of her looks.

But it was so good. I loved the ending but struggled with the fact that it wasn't to protect or save out of love. I loved that her story got told and she found a way to leave a mark. I loved the concept of the novel and all of the ingenious ways she found to leave traces of herself thorughout the world and time.

I'll admit that I'm not entirely sold on VE Schwab. I like her storytelling but I feel like she pulls punches with it. She seems to shy away from a deeper story and tells the surface, easy story that is easy to sell. I guess I could be pursuaded away from that thought and just haven't found the right book yet....