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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.

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 *

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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Vicious
Vengeful

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Published Apr 11, 2023

438 pages

Average rating: 7.67

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TwistedWreck

Nov 19, 2024

7/10 stars

A lovely taste of magical realism, a pleasant yet potent love story. It is, however, predictable from start to finish, despite the author’s fresh perspective on old ideas and tropes.

ltrteach

Aug 27, 2024

4/10 stars

I did not like this book at all, as I found it very difficult to care about the characters. There was so little backstory on Addie and Henry that I could never figure out why they made the wishes they did.

nightingale

May 09, 2024

10/10 stars

Absolutely beautiful book - cried like a baby at the end and want to know what happens next. Authors shouldn’t be allowed to write so beautifully.

Finch

May 23, 2025

2/10 stars

It had a lot of introspection and people walking around talking to each other and nothing really happening so obviously I didn't like it. Henry annoyed the everliving hell out me with his whiney ways and Addie was more understandable but kept getting into and describing one bed and lover after another which didn't interest me, because she really didn't do anything else with her life and opportunities. At this point I'm rooting for the villain because these people are so insufferable. Also the vibe of the book is horribly Parisian, which I know many people love but I absolutely loathe. So yeah!!! Books that take four hundred pages of people standing and being handsome and desired by everyone and maybe saying an aesthetic line before anything notable happens are really boring in my opinion and that's this book.

Mrs.TPed

May 16, 2025

4/10 stars

This was a February book club pick for me and it didn’t disappoint. Born in the 1700 and she didn’t like how life was going and prayed for something to change but the wrong god answered. It bounces around to different years and at first was a little confusing. Then she meets a boy who remembers hers but why out 300 years he remembers her and she falls for him because she is seen and heard. All this time the god she prayed to that cursed her pops in and out of her life. There is something between them a slow burn of affection all these years. This is definitely something I wouldn’t have picked to read myself but glad it was something I got to read.