the invisible life of addie larue by ve schwab

I found Addie to be a bold, intelligent, regretful soul. She expertly crafts Addie’s story over the years, rendering a life encased in sorrow, but with sparks of hope. From the opening page, the story was a powerfully addictive thing largely due to Schwab’s evocative and immersive prose.

The words flow together in a beautiful, entrancing harmony. Schwab has always had a gift for great prose and fine storytelling, but what she’s done in Addie LaRue is a leveling up from a great foundation. Nobody remembers who she is, despite being over 300 years old by the “current” time of the novel in the 20 th Century. Addie finds herself in something of a Faustian bargain, doomed to an immortal life without attachment. Of course, bargains made with spirits during the dark hours don’t always work in the favor of those headstrong, youthful characters begging for release. She flees her family in the darkness and begs for help, she wants to “live and be free.” Her pleas are answered by something dark and rather amorphous. The starting point for this novel is somewhat familiar, in the early years of the 18 th Century in France, a young girl named Addie is being forced into a marriage in which she has no desire to participate. 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.īut everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name. A Story You Will Never Forget.įrance, 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.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is more than a collection of pages between book covers that tells a story, it is an Experience.Ī Life No One Will Remember. This is an epic, powerful, sweeping novel about an immortal girl, a hasty bargain, and heartbreak over the centuries. That lent the novel an air of Import even before I opened the cover and began flipping pages. Her novel, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is something she’s been working on in some form for the better part of a decade.

I’ve enjoyed the half-dozen novels I’ve read from V.E.

The invisible life of addie larue by ve schwab