The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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V. E. Schwab
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERUSA TODAY BESTSELLER NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLERTHE WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERRecommended by Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, NPR, Slate, and Oprah Magazine #1 Library Reads Pick—October 2020#1 Indie Next Pick—October 2020BOOK OF THE YEAR (2020) FINALIST—Book of The Month ClubA “Best Of” Book From: Oprah Mag * CNN * Amazon * Amazon Editors * NPR * Goodreads * Bustle * PopSugar * BuzzFeed * Barnes & Noble * Kirkus Reviews * Lambda Literary * Nerdette * The Nerd Daily * Polygon * Library Reads * io9 * Smart Bitches Trashy Books * LiteraryHub * Medium * BookBub * The Mary Sue * Chicago Tribune * NY Daily News * SyFy Wire * Powells.com * Bookish * Book Riot * Library Reads Voter Favorite *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. SchwabShades of Magic A Darker Shade of Magic A Gathering of Shadows A Conjuring of LightVillains Vicious Vengeful
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Author
V. E. Schwab
Pages
448
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Published Date
2020-10-06
ISBN
0765387565 9780765387561
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"I really liked this! It wasn't as whimsical or exciting as some of Schwab's other books, but that doesn't make it any less of a good read. This book very purposefully reads like an autobiography. The narrative jumps around, and sometimes the plot feels second fiddle to simply getting an emotion or an idea on the page. But it works. I especially loved the idea that an immortal is not living it up in the grandest and most spectacular ways they can imagine but is instead just getting by. This is a nice break from the grander end of the world fantasy books I feel like I'm always reading."
"What would you trade to escape a life you do not want? Knowing what she *doesn’t* want doesn’t help Addie choose wisely or carefully and only later comes to fully comprehend the trade she has made. She successfully avoids a small life in a small village, trading it for an invisible life. This story is beautifully written. Highly recommend!!"
"I debated for a long time on giving this a four-star or a three-star rating. I think my true rating would be in the middle with a 3.5, on Likewise however, I'll give it a four.
I guess I'll start off by saying I saw a lot of good things in this book. Even though I have some criticisms it was well written, as I expected it to be. When a book has 900K ratings my expectations rise for at least the prose of a novel. There were tons of witty and quotable lines that are common in books like these. It had a good ending, and it was pretty believable. I mean, all in all, it wasn't a bad book. it just wasn't what IN MY OPINION it could have been.
So now, why I think it could have been executed better. I've been reading some of the more popular books recently like "The Silent Patient," "Gone Girl", and "Where the Crawdads Sing," (The funny thing is all four books use flashbacks as part of the storytelling, which is weird right? Is that the secret to writing a uber popular book?) The reason I read this one was because of the gimmick, a girl cursed to never be remembered by anyone who sees her but has eternal life. That sounded like so much fun to me, and with the raving reviews, I assumed it was pulled off really well too. It was pulled off, but I think this book was written in the wrong genre. I was so annoyed that this book turned into a romance book. You have all of these pathways to choose about what Addie can do REGARDLESS of her limitations. And the book becomes a romance just like a book written without the enticing gimmick. I had so many questions about the curse, and she could have done so much with her life, and who knows maybe she did. But all we get in the book is this weird love triangle thing that's not really a love triangle now that I think about it. It got repetitive too. Nothing happened for a lot of the book, so much was in the past that the present didn't change as quickly as I wanted it to. The curse was not explored to its fullest potential. It cou"
"This is perfect. V.E.’s words are like a perfect flow of soothing rhythm and soul. She is the reincarnation of Shakespeare in the 21st century. I have never read Shakespeare as his words are convoluted. But I imagine his works to be as beautiful and as impactful. Because this story is soul. Adeline is a soul of thousands of years old, and I will never tire of reading about her. It’s more of an autobiography than a romance, but I’m okay with it. I’m happy V.E. made it clear that Luc is not a partner, that he is toxic and manipulative. I’m happy that Adeline knows how to love just as well as she knows how to fight.
The only issue was that I really had to fight through this book because I’m not used to character-analysis stories. Still, I was reminded of Schwab’s beautiful voice and continued reading."
"A life no one will remember.
A story you won’t forget.
France, 1714; a young woman makes a deal with the devil to live forever, but she is cursed to be forgotten by everyone as soon as they turn away from her.
Thus her life becomes an adventure. Addie Larue lives out centuries in different continents, across history and art, how far will Addie go to be remembered? To leave her mark on the world.
One day everything changes after 300 years Addie meets someone that can actually remember her.
This book is very lyrical in how it’s written. The way they explain the story, it adds magic to else would be a normal story. The book exists in many timelines so it was interesting seeing her life over the span of 300 years. I loved seeing how everyone she met, how they reacted to her, how they remembered her and how she chose to love those she met. There are intricacies about not being remembered that I never even imagined until reading this book. It’s not like a crazy, magical story with world building, it’s set in normal life with places that can still be visited. However how the character interacts with them and how they become her own are interesting to witness. The character development and growth, top notch. The last third of the book was the most interesting, it had the most uncertainty as the book falls together, a lot of gasp moments for me. Although it wasn’t my usual fantasy book, it was definitely worth the read for me and fell together better than I anticipated."
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