Finished on December 15th, 2025 In all honesty, I am a little bit lost for words when trying to describe my experience of reading this book. I am sad. I am angry. I am furious and absolutely heartbroken.

So many different emotions were going through me while reading this story, and still are going through me now that I finished it, that it makes it so hard to describe. I think it mostly because this book spoke to the absolute core of me as a woman and the way it hit me and the way it made me feel will never be something that I will find the right words in any language to describe it.

Getting to know the women in this story - getting to know them, their stories and how they ended up in the place where they are was one of my favorite, yet one of the most heartbreaking aspects of the book. I can't even begin to explain just how much I embraced these women in my heart as soon as I got to know them and how they will stay there - they left an imprint on my reader's heart that will last for a long time.

Just be forewarned that this book depicts graphic images of the real life world of pregnant women/girls and therefor will also show the truth of childbirth, societies view on (pregnant) women/girls in the 1960s/1970s and the complete injustice that they had to go through (that some sadly still have to go through today). If I had the chance to read this again, I would read the book in multiple sessions.

To end this, I have not given any stars for "enjoyment" simply because I can not say that I enjoyed this book, it feels wrong to say it did. In my mind this feels like a read that is supposed to be uncomfortable.

Finished on December 12th, 2025 Ever since 2021 'The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue' has been on my shelf, it's been picked up several times but has always remained unread. I now understand why my heart always told me to put the book back down.

This has quickly become one of my absolute favorite books that I have ever read. The writing is so incredibly beautiful, the story is just so incredible and it keeps pulling you in - though I genuinely do had to read the book in multiple sessions just because it was all so overwhelming and left such an impression on me.

This is one of those books that you simply HAVE to reread. The first time is such an emotional rollercoaster where you get to know the characters and their stories and it is all so overwhelmingly beautiful that I feel like I simply have to reread the book to be able to place all these details that you learn about during the first read. As I marked the book as read, I placed it in my 'books-I-want-to-reread' list immediately.

I feel like I'm going to love this book and hold Addie LaRue close to my heart for as long as I live and as I do, I will recommend this book to each and every reader that I have the pleasure to meet.