The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

OK, so almost everything from my previous review still stands, but I found I enjoyed this much more in print than in the audio, so I'm bumping it up a star. I could appreciate Henry much more this time around, and since he was the only one who remembered Addie, I can't fault her for wanting the connection. (Especially because he was essentially a good guy. If he had been a garbage human, I would have judged much more harshly.)

I still don't think the revised deal was as good as Addie seemed to think it was, for all the previously mentioned reasons.

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Original Review, 3/25/21
So I forget, what color are Luc's eyes again? ... snickers

Every time Schwab called him the Darkness, I got this song from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend stuck in my head. (“He's handsome for a metaphor!”)

The audiobook was great, and kept me engaged, and I did enjoy this for the most part. The stakes ramped up a lot in the last quarter, but I don't know that I really liked the ending. Addie feels so superior when she's like haha, I WILL have the last word in this and Luc will REGRET ever making a deal with me! Except ... nothing has changed, except the wording of the deal? Why would he get tired of her if he's already put up with her for 300+ years? Also, I ... didn't think Henry was worth it, even if Addie had Reasons. (OK, just one reason. Still.)

But I guess I gotta give it credit for not falling too far into the trap of “this person lived for a super long time so obviously they must encounter every famous person that ever lived in every location” AHEM How to Stop Time - as far as I can recollect, Addie only witnesses Beethoven and Sinatra from a distance, and is more interested in being immortalized in pieces of art than rubbing elbows with famous artists.