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In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab’s genre-defying tour de force.
A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.
France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever–and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.
Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.
But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.
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I don’t even know where to begin with this book. VE Schwab already creates god-tier stories IMO, and this book was a level up beyond that. The craft was just UNF. She created a gorgeous, gorgeous story, weaving it deftly across the centuries. Addie was everything I could have wanted her to be. She’s resilient and hopeful and heartbreaking.
And that ending. Gods, that ending. I’ve been thinking about it ever since I finished a couple weeks ago. This book stuck the landing so hard, I’m going to be feeling it for years. The more I think about it, the more I love it.
So yeah, this one is going on the keeper shelf and I’ll be shoving it into the hands of everyone I know because it’s a really, really special book.
I was lucky enough to receive this ARC from Macmillan/Tor, and it was breathtaking. Schwab has a way of digging so deep into her characters that you have no choice but to fall in love with them and their plight. The story itself is everything I wanted, and couldn’t have been more perfect for my tastes. It has romance, history, and unique fantastical elements that had me utterly absorbed. I highly recommend this book.