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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by [V. E. Schwab]

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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.

Also by V. E. Schwab

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Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.
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An Amazon Best Book of October 2020: In the 1700s, Addie LaRue makes a deal with the devil—she will live forever, although her immortality comes with the curse of being forgotten by everyone. Addie moves through time and across continents; she learns to survive and even leave her mark on the world. Then one day she meets a man in a bookstore who remembers her name, and suddenly everything changes. This deeply satisfying and cinematic novel rivals contemporary classic The Time Traveler’s Wife in concept and scope. —Sarah Gelman, Amazon Book Review

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Praise for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue:
"For someone damned to be forgettable, Addie LaRue is a most delightfully unforgettable character, and her story is the most joyous evocation of unlikely immortality."
-- Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods and winner of multiple Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards

"Victoria Schwab sends you whirling through a dizzying kaleidoscopic adventure through centuries filled with love, loss, art and war -- all the while dazzling your senses with hundreds of tiny magical moments along the way. The Invisible Life of Addie Larue will enchant readers as deeply as its heroine's Faustian bargain; you will find yourself in quick turns both aching with heartbreak, and gleefully crowing at the truly delicious, wicked cleverness in store."
-- Naomi Novik, Nebula and Locus Award-winning author of Spinning Silver

"Addie Larue is a book perfectly suspended between darkness and light, myth and reality. [This novel] is--ironically--unforgettable." -- Hugo Award winner Alix E. Harrow, author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January

"The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is the kind of book you encounter only once in a lifetime. . . . A defiant, joyous rebellion against time, fate, and even death itself--and a powerful reminder that the only magic great enough to conquer all of it is love."-- Peng Shepherd, author of The Book of M

Praise for the Shades of Magic series:

"Addictive and immersive, this series is a must-read." --Entertainment Weekly, Grade A, on A Gathering of Shadows

"A gem of a tale.... This is a book to treasure." --Deborah Harkness on A Darker Shade of Magic

"Compulsively readable.... With so many worlds on the map, there's plenty left to discover."--NPR on A Darker Shade of Magic

"Feels like a priceless object, brought from another, better world of fantasy books." --io9 on A Darker Shade of Magic

--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B084357H23
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tor Books (October 6, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 6, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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VICTORIA “V. E.” SCHWAB is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including the acclaimed Shades of Magic series, the Villains series, the Cassidy Blake series and the international bestseller The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Her work has received critical acclaim, translated into over two dozen languages, and optioned for television and film. First Kill – a YA vampire series based on Schwab’s short story of the same name – is currently in the works at Netflix with Emma Roberts’ Belletrist Productions producing. When she's not haunting Paris streets or trudging up English hillsides, she lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is usually tucked in the corner of a coffee shop, dreaming up monsters.

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meganthebookworm

Slow, but enchanting read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 23, 2023

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I’m so glad that I heard it was a slow book before I went into it. That helped a lot! If I had gone in expecting something fast paced, I probably would have been disappointed the whole time. However, knowing it was going to be slow, I was happy to listen to it languidly (audio book) and just enjoy the rich language as it went.

Things I liked:
*The line level language was beautiful. She is a VERY talented writer. I wanted to highlight nearly every line as it was so poetic and perfectly done. The language alone is one of the reasons I liked it.

*I liked a lot of the ideas presented and the characters. I also enjoyed the relationships.

*I listened to the audio book and whenever I put it on, it immediately transported my mind to a contemplative, melancholy state that was sort of like a trance. It was sort of soothing.

Things I didn’t like:

*I struggled with the bouncing around timeline. This was not a linear book. It hoped forward and backward and all around with no discernible rhyme or reason. It felt jarring and took a long time to get used to. Honestly, I sort of want to reread it but in chronological order some day. I didn’t find too many moments that felt like they had to go back to back. The only reason I can think of for the bouncing around was to help us FEEL how long and frustrated Adddie probably felt. But still, I would have preferred it in order.

*As some people have already said, this book feels like it wants to be a big important book. It does feel at times like it tries too hard to be something grand. I still really liked it though.

*I was surprised by how mundane her life was. She lived a long time and didn’t really seem to do as much with her time as I’d hoped. I was expecting a bit more of a grand adventure. Instead it was a simple, mundane life. I’m not opposed to that, I just expected something else.

*I didn’t love the ending. I won’t spoil it, but I was not satisfied. I wanted a more definitive ending instead of one that “trails off.”

*She also says she doesn’t want to be “tied to anyone” and that ends up not being true. I won’t explain how, but that disappointed me that she didn’t see the error in her “deal.”

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DomeniqueCY

Definitely made me think

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 14, 2022

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I don't read a lot of fantasy. It is not because I don't like fantasy, it is because editors and agents in the adult fantasy world often do a terrible job of copy editing, and I end up finding small errors which takes me out of the story.

One could argue that in this world of deep fiction there is no error, but in fact continuity is key to keeping up the rouse. Also, if you level of abstraction is such that your fantasy is taking place in a real place or a real time, or both, there are certain elements that need to reflect that.
This was a great story, and it was not until halfway through the novel that there were the continuity errors. One being Henry's brother should be working at Mt. Sinai, not just Sinai. Two, so Luc's various last names mean "the Woods" but the German translation of duBois is ImWald, Holz, Von der Wald... Also the sexual fluidity of the two main character, does not need to be explained, but seems to fall relatively flat. It seems like it was just thrown into the book to seem relevant. I think if you're going to do modern fantasy with representative sexualities, in a story that spans 300 years, a little chit chat about the evolving nature of sexuality in the last 300 years might help... I mean I really got taken out of the story with some of these plot and continuity holes...

Same goes for the very Eurocentric nature of the novel, and the lack of review on race or disenfranchisement. It doesn't need to be a political novel with like deep dive discussions, just a contextual mention that race in the US in the 1950's is different than in France in the 1700s, and maybe this main character benefits greatly in her little spell because she is in essence a cis white women.And I am a cis white women.

Other than that, it is a nice little story, but I am kind of put off by her weird sexual attraction to the amorphous creature that Luc really is. I think the point of the novel was to extrapolate on patience in love, but just, I don't think I have it in me to fall for a sinister g-dlike creature that is clearly not human, but maybe because I am human?? I just didn't find his "smoldering" nature attractive, I found it abusive. But this novel really did make me think, and I looked forward to seeing what happened next in the four nights it took me to read it. So there you go...

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Cassie Stegman

It was almost perfect.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 1, 2023

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Title: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Author: V. E. Schwab
Genre: Fiction, Fantasy Fiction, Historical Fiction
Pages: 444
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I know I’m late to the party with this book but better late than never. I fell in love with Addie from the very first page; her stubbornness and decisiveness are qualities I often see in myself so it was like I found a friend in her. I actually fell in love with all the characters, even the small ones, because they were so beautifully written. For me the story was fast paced at the start and then got a bit slow with all of the back and forth between the past and the present. Once I got to the last 60 pages I couldn’t put it down. For me, I needed more with Luc. I needed to read more a of story of how Addie got from point A to point B with him. I felt like it came out of nowhere. As for the ending, I thought it was perfection until the last two pages. I’m probably in the minority there, but I feel like it added an extra layer it didn’t need. Overall a solid ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ book that I will definitely recommend.

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Anamelia Regan (EldritchFae)

Such a beautiful and emotive book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 19, 2020

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This book was absolutely incredible. I am a fan of Schwab’s other work, so I was extremely excited about ‘The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue’, especially as Schwab has talked on multiple occasions about it being a book that really means a lot to her. I went in with high expectations and yet somehow it exceeded every one of them. I absolutely adored every moment of this book - it took me through such a range of emotions and utterly broke my heart. It kept me guessing until the end, as I never truly knew exactly what was going to happen next, despite my constant guessing. This book is beautiful, the characters are incredible and this is definitely one of the most compelling books I have ever read.

This is a very character driven book, and Addie as a character is wonderful, because she is flawed. She spends her life forgotten, and so she has picked up a lot of bad habits in order to survive. I really liked the fact that Addie is not perfect, because she is a reflection of human existence. She has gone through so much and yet never loses her love for art, or for life. She has goes through the best and worst of human existence, and still finds joy in the world. She finds something new, and I feel like we all need a bit of Addie in our lives to remind us that joy can be found in the strangest of places. There are so many incredible characters in this book, predominately Henry the person who remembers her and Luc, the devil who cursed her. But each person that Addie meets adds a new layer to the story, and a new outlook and insight into this world. Each chapter was a new exploration, a new idea, explored through encounters with the people surrounding Addie.

The plot seems like a simple ‘person sold their soul to the devil to live forever’ kind of story, but it is so much more than that. There is so much to this book, but it is best left discovered in your own time. This book starts slow, in that it slowly pulls you into its rhythm, flipping backwards and forwards in time between events that all build upon each other. This creates the feeling that it’s weaving you into the story, dropping hints here and there until you’re so caught up in what will happen next that you can’t think of much else and don’t want to stop reading. This is definitely a book that will stay with me for a long time, and keeps haunting my thoughts.

‘The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue’ is thought provoking, and brings up a lot of thoughts about the nature of existence and what it means to live. Can we really live without making a mark on the world, or is it the impression we have on others that makes us real? I wasn’t expecting this book to raise a lot of philosophical questions, and make me rethink the nature of existence, relationship with art and the meaning of life but it did! It made me think a lot about my own insecurities about life, being forgotten and the nature of art and reality. I’m sure a lot of readers won’t be quite so plagued by these thoughts but they were such an important part of the book in my opinion and they have left an impression on me in the most interesting way! There’s also such a focus on art in the book, which ties the whole thing together in such a wonderful way. There was such a love of art that came across in the pages, it felt like a love letter to creativity at times, which I found really inspiring.

Overall, I absolutely adored this book. It was beautiful, lyrical, incredibly written and haunting. It took me through such a range of emotions, and left me wanting more. The characters were fantastic, the story was gripping and it lived up to and then exceeded every one of my hopes. Schwab is a master storyteller and this is her best book to date. This book is special, fully of joy and I hope everyone who reads it loves it as much as I do.

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Heloisa M

Livro lindo, em estado perfeito, história incrível!

Reviewed in Brazil 🇧🇷 on November 19, 2020

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Vale muitoo a pena, essa edição é linda, capa aveludada e com toques metálicos e a escrita da V.E. Schwab é contagiante, recomendo demais!

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Samantha VB

Read with tissues!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 17, 2020

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This book has been three days of emotional turmoil for me. I've loved it, I've hated it, I've been excited by it, furious at it, bored stiff and completely captivated! And finally, utterly and totally heartbroken.

(A quick side note about the very poor editing. So many words missing, or extra words that I noticed. And continuity errors! Just one example is that she drapes her coat over a kitchen chair, but later mentions that there are no kitchen chairs! Also, at one point she's talking with someone in the kitchen, then in the next sentence she stands from the bed??? It drove me mad!!!)

I love Addie LaRue. I am awestruck at the resilience and strength she has. If I were her, I'd have surrendered my soul to the devil on the first night is Paris. She has a hunger to live and be free that is intoxicating. And she's not the only character that I loved. Even the fleeting ones were deep and lovable.

The writing is so beautiful. I love Schwab's style! She pulls you into the scene and it's so easy to feel everything the characters are feeling. It's an emersive experience.

Plot is where the book stumbles a little for me. The main plot, Addie making a deal with a God for her soul and the other main plot points (which I won't spoil), is wonderful!!! I loved every second. But there were far, far too many bits in between. I think this book could have been at least 100 pages shorter and you'd still get the entire experience without the parts that drag and make you wonder why everyone is saying such wonderful things about this book!!

But you get past those parts, the main plot takes over and... I shattered. I completely shattered, I'm still crying, I may be crying for a while. It's absolutely devistating and yet stunningly beautiful. I will, happily, read this book again in a few year and still cry my eyes out! At least the second time I'll know to have tissues at the ready!

I have a couple more of the authors books on my shelf, unread, and I'm really looking forward to them now!

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little bookworm

Utterly unforgettable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 13, 2020

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On the eve of her wedding, desperate to escape the small life ahead of her, Addie makes a pact with one of the Old Gods - freedom for the price of her soul. From this date forth, Addie's life is cursed, for though she is free, no-one can remember her. Yet despite the hardships and loneliness of her existence, Addie stubbornly clings on to life, revelling in those small moments of beauty and wonder, her only companion the God who cursed her. He visits her once a year, the two engaged in a chess game, a battle that neither wishes to lose. Yet everything changes when almost three hundred years later, Addie finally meets someone who can remember her.

This was just a mesmerizing read, and easily my book of the year. I've never read anything from Schwab before, but was simply intrigued by the blurb for this book, however, if any of her other books are even half as good as this one, I would still be pleased. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is one of those rare reads that you know will stay with you for a long time, and reading it I just wanted to savour it. Indeed coming to the last few chapters I was almost bereft at knowing I would soon be leaving this world and these wonderful characters behind.

I have to say in some ways the book was not necessarily what I was expecting, but I loved it all the same. Whilst it does clearly have a fantasy element to it, the book is so much more than that, combining historical and contemporary fiction, together with romance. However, perhaps what surprised me most was just how reflective a read this was, in that it had an almost philosophical feel to it. It makes you ponder and pause. Furthermore, Schwab's writing was simply exquisite. I don't know if this is her usual style of writing, but it really suited the tone of the story. Every word seemed to have been perfectly chosen, every sentence crafted in such a way that it weighed. The prose itself flowed beautifully and was very evocative and lyrical in style.

The story itself spans about three hundred years with the chapters going back and forth, from Addie's early life, to her making this Faustian deal and learning to live with it, to chapters then set almost in the modern day, which is where Addie meets Henry, the man who can remember her. I thought this structure was really effective and kept the story moving, without ever being confusing, and I liked the New York setting for the contemporary aspects.

Of course when you've lived three hundred years, there's an awful lot of content to cover, and so Schwab has to be selective in terms of the parts of Addie's history that we witness and the parts that are left untold. I appreciate that some readers were a little disappointed by this and had perhaps expected the scope of the story to be wider in terms of the places Addie has travelled and the events she has witnessed through history. However, personally I appreciated the more personal story that Schwab was trying to tell, and thought she structured it well accordingly. It made sense to focus more on Addie's early years after the curse as that was when she struggled most to adapt to it, and whilst I would have loved to see Addie on her travels more, having the past narrative mostly in France worked for me, as it was the place Addie always still identified as home and so resonated with her character. Quite often we home in on Addie in the past on the anniversary of her curse, as this is when she most often interacts with Luc (the name she gives the God or Devil who cursed her), and again I thought this was an effective way of keeping the narrative moving forward and conveying their long standing history together.

Whilst I appreciated that Schwab was focused more on the implications of the curse and what Addie had lost, exploring themes such as identity, memory, loneliness and connecting with others as well as leaving a mark on the world, that is not to say that if Schwab ever decided to write a spin off book following Addie on her travels through time, I would not lap it up, as I would be intrigued to delve further into her thoughts on a changing world and experiencing different cultures.

Addie herself was such a memorable character, which of course is ironic, given that no-can can remember her. I loved her resilience and determined spirit, and that she just could not be broken no matter what happened to her and what she lost. She had such a zest for life, and it was easy to appreciate why she became a muse for so many artists, as her spirit just burned so brightly.

The other two central characters in the book are Luc and Henry, and in many ways they are the opposite of each other. Luc, for me, to begin with, was a little one-dimensional, however his character did develop as the story went on, and his relationship with Addie ultimately was very intriguingly drawn. There was an aspect of their relationship that was very compelling, with really interesting dynamics, and yet what I liked, was that whilst still acknowledging that fact and playing on it, Schwab never let the reader lose sight of the fact that this was an unhealthy dynamic. In many ways Luc and Addie represent a toxic and even abusive relationship, due to the fact that Luc always wields such power and is always in a position of control in comparison to Addie, and he uses that and manipulates it to his advantage. There were times when he was incredibly cruel, and yet as the story went on, you could see some change in him, and even some vulnerability, and actually by the story's end perhaps that power balance between them had shifted somewhat. Again there is scope for so much more here, in terms of where and how Schwab leaves the story, though this does work as a stand alone read too.

That leaves Henry, who was just the complete antidote to Luc's toxicity. What I like about this book, is that many authors may have left the focus on Addie and Luc's relationship (and I'm not sure if this is why some readers were again disappointed), but I personally really enjoyed what Henry brought to the story. He is the gentleness to Luc's cruelty, the light to his dark, a safe haven to Luc's unpredictability, and his story works so well interwoven as it is with Addie's. One of the things that Addie herself slowly acknowledges as the story goes on is that she is no longer really human, and given that fact, I think Henry is all the more important to the story, because he is so human. Henry encapsulates all our human fragilities and insecurities, as well as our huge capacity to love. His own arc in this story is such a touching one that Schwab renders really well, sensitively exploring subjects like depression and low self-esteem. However, combined with Addie's arc, this makes for something magical.

Some readers might find their romance a little 'cutesy', and certainly there is a quality to it that doesn't feel quite real necessarily, however, in the context of this story and the way their arcs intertwine and almost fit like pieces of a jigsaw together, for me they just worked. In the final chapter Addie herself reflects on their relationship as 'a gift. Time and memory, like lovers in a fable,' and I agreed with that sentiment. Their time together felt like a pause, a breath, in Addie's longer story, and they were able to complement each other and give the other what they needed in that time they had. Furthermore this relationship contrasted so well with Addie and Luc's, in that there was so much mutual respect and understanding there.

The nature of Addie's curse means that there are not too many other central players in the story, though to Schwab's credit she often managed to render characters who only had fleeting parts in the story, really well, such as Remy for instance and Estele. I also really liked the author's focus on how art in all its forms, can be this lasting imprint. Ultimately we're all forgotten, but in works of art, people live on and touch and influence others.

If you're the sort of reader who likes their books fast paced and action packed, then this definitely is not for you. However, if you don't mind something a little slower and character driven, then I would highly recommend this as book you can easily get lost in. Sometimes the story might seem a little repetitive, but I thought it suited the subject nature, at times having a deja vu feel, that Addie herself experiences so often. The last section of the story really raises the stakes and has this feel as if you're up against the clock (be warned you might need the tissues) and the ending itself was for me perfect.

Overall a very memorable and poignantly rendered story, that ponders on what it really means to live and to leave your mark.

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Laura McToal

A Good Read but not quite worth the Hype

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 21, 2021

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In 1700’s France, Addie makes a desperate deal with the Devil. She wants to belong to herself and no one else, to have a life forever. So the devil gives her eternal life in exchange for her soul. But, everyone Addie meets instantly forgets her as soon as she leaves the room.

Until one day, someone remembers her.

This book has been hyped all over Bookstagram. Whilst I did enjoy it. I do not think it is equal to the hype. Whilst loads of people say they cried at the end, I was indifferent.

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