The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V.E. Schwab

Imagine living over three centuries after making a deal. That’s what Addie LaRue is faced with after making a choice that changes everything in ways she never could have imagined. In the early 1700’s Adaline LaRue is about to be forced to marry a widower with two children and she is panicking because she has never quite done what people expect of her. Growing up, she would rather draw than learn the things that women were expected to do.

Her neighbor Estelle sees her for who she is, giving her the nickname Addie and teaching her to pray to the old gods when her parents insist that she pray to the new gods because she feels no connection to the new gods. Estelle does give her a warning about the old gods never pray to them after the sun has gone down. Addie’s need for freedom is greater than her need for caution on the day of the wedding however because she’s desperate for an answer. She gets her prayer for freedom answered by an unexpected source. The trade off for getting her freedom is that no one she meets will remember her. You see she had to make a deal, which she sees as more of a curse, to get what she wanted the ramifications of which she will have to learn and deal with from then on.

Then one day she meets Henry who changes everything she thought she knew about her curse and maybe even herself.

WARNINGS: BRIEF MENTION OF SEXUAL ASSUALT AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE