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.
did not like writing style, did not like characters. will confess i skipped ahead and read a significant section of the end bc i wanted to see if it was worth continuing on. decided no.
I'm continuously impressed with V.E. Schwab's ability to write such engaging characters AND engaging worlds! She's quickly becoming my favorite author.
Addie's relationship with Luc is such a better telling of a Beauty and the Beast type tale. You're never quite certain of Luc's motivation, or at least I wasn't ever convinced. I do feel bad for Henry, I was always getting the vibe that he was a pawn in Addie and Luc's game. This tale does make you think a lot about what "love" really is. Would Addie have loved Henry any more if he wasn't the exception to the rules? Did she love him any more than her other lovers over time? Or did she just love that she could tell her tale through Henry more so than she ever could through anyone else?
Can't say how much I loved this book!
This book was nice to read.
It set me thinking about immortality. How would it be to live hundreds of years, if nobody can remember you?
Wow this book is a complete and absolut mess.
I had to rant my way through this book to finish it.
The first 30% nothing happens. Nothing. (At least nothing we did not know from the blurb already). The whole book was based on so much foreshadowing,I knew how it would end the first time they mentioned New Orleans. Then you had short phases when you hoped something would happened but then nothing happened again.
The pacing was so off. The way it was told, with the back and forth was utterly exhausting and just threw you out of the story again and again. But worse than all of this (beside having the most shallow point a book of Schwab could have had in the year 2020) were the fucking characters.
Addie:
So she did not want to get married, which is fine. (I hate when they put a 20th …
Wow this book is a complete and absolut mess.
I had to rant my way through this book to finish it.
The first 30% nothing happens. Nothing. (At least nothing we did not know from the blurb already). The whole book was based on so much foreshadowing,I knew how it would end the first time they mentioned New Orleans. Then you had short phases when you hoped something would happened but then nothing happened again.
The pacing was so off. The way it was told, with the back and forth was utterly exhausting and just threw you out of the story again and again. But worse than all of this (beside having the most shallow point a book of Schwab could have had in the year 2020) were the fucking characters.
Addie:
So she did not want to get married, which is fine. (I hate when they put a 20th century persons mind in historical fiction BUT OKAY I will roll with it). Did she really not have a choice left? Could she not have joined a convent, could she not have run away? If she hated the idea of marriage so much, all she could do was run into the forest and plead with a god? Oh and then, when she ACCEPTED A DEAL knowing that it was a dark god, and she was WARNED before not to do it, she spents 300 YEARS OF BLAMING IT ALL ON THE EVIL THING OF NATURE. That's like blaming the rain for being wet, or blaming a Virus for making people ill. Not once in this book, does she ever halt and for a moment accept that she did this to herself. Yes, yes the evil being is cruel and she suffers, but is it really not her fault. Is there no way for her to ACCEPT and LIVE with it? I was so sick at the end of the not existing character growth, the childish feisty-ness (because being stubborn is cool since 1796
