The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V. E. Schwab

I love V.E. Schwabs writing and I was so excited to pick up this novel! I had no idea what it was about when I bought it but it I enjoyed the story.

This is a realistic fiction about a young woman named Adeline LaRue born in the 1700’s. She never fit in in her life, she didn’t want to marry or be forced into cooking and laundry and being a mother.

Her modern ideas came from the village “crazy lady” who prayed to the old gods. This woman taught Adeline (Addie) to pray to these god, but to never pray at night.

Addie grew into a young woman and her parents were forcing her into marriage. On the night of the wedding, Addie took off into the forest and prayed for someone to save her from the empty life ahead of her. She prayed all day and into the night, and in the night, a god answered.

He granted her her wish, to live her life as she pleased for as long as she pleased. It came with unexpected side-effects. Everyone forgot her and she could leave no mark behind.

This story is about her and how she lived for 300 years, never making a mark of her existence, but she found a loophole that allowed her to inspire others to mark her down for her. She inspired painters, writers, and musicians throughout history.

About 200 pages in, once we learn about her curse, or deal, I started to wonder where this story was going, but then she meets someone. She met a man who remembers her.

She falls in love with him, but soon finds out he’s made his own deal with the same old god at night.

As they discover what his deal means, Addie tries and outplay this old god, as they have a long history, 300 years of keeping each other company.

The way V.E Schawb wrote this old god, obviously meant to be the devil, was memorizing. There's one section where he describes who he is, and it gave me chills reading it. In the end, it was a great story and would be a lovely movie. I highly recommend this book to anyone who needs a break from your usual romance or fantasy novels, as this is a refreshing story of love and the human desire for the freedom to make your own choices in life.

Comments

Ender's Game vs. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Ender's Game and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Orson Scott Card and Gabrielle Zevin Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you. On the surface level, Enders Game and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow have nothing in common. In fact, the only reason I even thought about these two books being comparable was because I read them one after another, and both had an impact on me, but I wasn't sure what is was. Enders Game is a science fiction novel written in 1985, and is about one boy, Ender, being the only hope for the human race to defeat a war against a bee-like alien species. The training for this was was done through strategy games and fake battles, and training began at 6 years old for Ender. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is realistic fiction and about two people coming together and creating a game that turns into a successful business but also

What If's

What If's By Ashley The Science Fiction and Fantasy genre's of literature can be hard to describe. They can take place anywhere, in space, under water, virtual realities, or nowhere at all, in some made up place like Middle Earth in Lord of the Rings. One author, Veronica Roth, described it as the genre of "What If's". What if these certain worldly limitations vanished, or what if humanity discovered this new technology, what if something or everything was different, what would it do to humanity. Authors make us these scenarios and let it play out, focusing in on one character living in that "What If", and playing out how they would respond. Thats what makes this genre so special, there are no rules and authors play gods. For me, the difference between Science Fiction and Fantasy is that in Science Fiction, those "What If's" come from a new discovery, something that someone discovered and explored and it changed the world as we know it. In

A Catcher in the Rye

A Catcher in the Rye. By J.D Salinger I loved this book the first time I read it, but I remember being more confused than anything. I didn't understand the complex emotions Holden was going through, and I felt lost most of the time, but I was in high school at the time, and didn't have much real world experience. This time though, it was hard to read but was impossible to put down. Thats the beauty of re-reading books after time has past, it always hit you a little different. But Holden went through a lot of things I can relate to. The way he thinks, the way he was alone, the way he kept asking the wrong people for company and attention. Maybe thats not something I want to admit to though, after looking into more of the history and effect this book has had on pop culture, apparently its been the backbone or justification or murders who probably felt the world was full of "phonies" just like Holden did. It's beeb banned and unbanned throughout its life because

books by review

Search This Blog