Book Review | The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue has been on my TBR list for ages. I finally snagged a copy and was impressed! Why did I wait this long to read it?

Adeline LaRue is born in the late 1600s in France, and in an act of desperation to escape an arranged marriage, she makes a deal with the darkness for more time and to be free. Little does she know that the darkness plays by its own rules. Cursed to a life where she is forgotten the moment anyone looks away from her, where she can hold on to nothing for long, but she is immortal - unless she yields her soul to the dark. Adeline vows that she will not let the darkness win, even though she cannot say her name or tell her story, she is determined to outsmart her curse. The book jumps from Addie's past - everywhere in history for the last 300 years - to her present day, 2014.

The concept of Addie being "invisible" was unique, and they way Schwab weaves through each of her stories was masterful. I loved how I got to explore different periods of history and tread the edges of Addie's curse with her as she discovered how she could bend the rules. It is well worth it to traverse time with Addie in this gripping novel by V.E. Schwab.