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Secret life of addie larue12/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Schwab really didn’t hold back while writing Henry and his mental health. Feeling like no one will ever take the time to see you, the real you, and choose to love you unconditionally anyways. Feeling like you are just disappointing everyone around you. Feeling like something is wrong with you. It is just a storm, but there is always another waiting in its wake."īeing unsure what you want in life. "It’s just a storm, he tells himself, but he is tired of looking for shelter. Addie and Henry are both white, but there are POC side characters and other identities on the LGBTQIAP+ spectrum (gay, lesbian, maybe some polyamorous hints)! And this book, has some very serious depression representation! I believe Henry is pan, but it is never said on page, but "he’s attracted to a person first and their gender second" had me and my pan heart ascending to new heights, I promise you that. Now that I have used the word “yearning” one-hundred times, let’s talk about some of the rep in Addie LaRue, because there are lots of queer characters and characters who read queer! Addie is pan or bi, and we get to see her in relationships with different genders throughout this book, but the main relationship (and yearning) is m/f. Truly, this book was able to evoke such visceral reactions from me, and I could truly feel Addie’s yearning, and her hurt, on every page. Yearning for love, yearning for knowledge, yearning for art, yearning for a life that is worthy of remembrance. We get to see so much of Addie’s hurt throughout the centuries, but we also get to see so much of her yearning. We get to see Addie and her struggles and her growth over the course of three-hundred-years, starting in 1714 France and switching to 2014 America. And tonight, I say no."Īnd maybe, just maybe, Addie felt like she should be able to pay the price when she runs into the forest one night, willing to risk everything to have a life that is hers once and for all. 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. ![]() I am the darkness between stars, and the roots beneath the earth. "I am stronger than your god and older than your devil. ➽ Luc - A god you should never pray to after dark, unless you are very desperate, and feel very helpless, and are willing to pay the unknown price. And he happens to be able to see a girl that has never been remembered before. ➽ Henry - Works at a bookstore in New York while trying to live his life to the fullest. "Spells are for the witches, and witches are too often burned." And when she turns twenty-three, and everyone thinks her time is slowly running out, she quickly finds out that time is something she will never have to fear again. She was born in a small town, and had small town expectations placed on her, but Addie had big dreams and desired to see as much of the world as she possibly could. ➽ Addie - A girl with seven freckles, and she is told that there is one for every love she would ever have. Schwab has been working on for a decade and you can tell they really put their whole heart and soul into these complex characters: Many of you know, this is something that V.E. How do I even begin to describe this book to you? There are truly so many layers woven together to make this story. I will say that I think this book (and more importantly the ending) could be a bit polarizing, but this story, this main character, and the way everything was structured just really worked perfectly for me and my reading tastes. Schwab that I’ve given five stars to, and I’m not sure a day has passed since reading that I haven’t thought about it. This is all about a young girl who lives her life for herself, who lives her life in spite of the odds, who lives her life in hopes someone will recall her from memory.Įverything about Addie LaRue completely blew me away. This is a tale of power dynamics and imbalances and what humans are willing to do to not feel trapped and alone. This is a book about a girl, a boy, a devil, and the stories that get told and repeated and remembered. "Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. ARC provided by Tor in exchange for an honest review.
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