The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by V. E. Schwab
more Fantasy & Romantasy →Addie LaRue's central conceit (immortality at the cost of being forgotten by everyone she meets) gives Schwab room to wander centuries and art history while keeping a real emotional throughline. It's a slower, more melancholic read than the "fantasy adventure" shelving suggests.
why track this in moth
The book jumps between centuries nonlinearly; Moth's notes are useful for keeping track of which era you're in and what Addie has and hasn't told Henry yet.
Book facts
- Genre
- Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Literary
- Publisher
- Tom Doherty Associates
- Published
- October 6, 2020
- Pages
- 448
- Reading time
- 8 hr 54 min · ~21 nights at 25 min/day in Moth
- ISBN
- 9780765387561
- Language
- en
Publisher's summary
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER THE WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER
Recommended by Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, NPR, Slate, and Oprah Magazine #1 Library Reads Pick, October 2020 #1 Indie Next Pick, October 2020 BOOK OF THE YEAR (2020) FINALIST, Book of The Month Club
A “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. Schwab
Shades of Magic A Darker Shade of Magic A Gathering of Shadows A Conjuring of Light
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