The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
Tor/Forge · Paperback · April 11, 2023
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- Who it’s for
- A moody, lingering fantasy with romance threaded through the dark.
- Themes
- immortality, memory, identity
- Pacing
- Mixed
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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.
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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. Other books by V. E. Schwab Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil Shades of Magic series A Darker Shade of Magic A Gathering of Shadows A Conjuring of Light The Fragile Threads of Power Villains Series Vicious Vengeful Victorious* Coming October 2026
Moody Glow
A moody, lingering fantasy with romance threaded through the dark.
Come here for
- Gothic shimmer, romantic ache
- A long-breath read with melancholy glide
Expect
- Lush atmosphere
- Slow-burn emotional pull
Where it sits
| Magical Realism | 51% |
|---|---|
| Contemporary Fantasy | 40% |
| Historical Fantasy | 38% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Historical Fantasy
- Literary Fiction
- Multiple-Timeline Fiction
- Authors
- V. E. Schwab
- Publisher
- Tor/Forge
- Published
- April 11, 2023
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- immortality · memory · identity
- Reading lane
- Historical Fantasy