"For someone damned to be forgettable, Addie LaRue is a most delightfully unforgettable character, and her story is the most joyous evocation of unlikely immortality." -Neil Gaiman A Sunday Times-bestselling, award-nominated genre-defying tour-de-force of Faustian bargains, for fans of The Time Traveler's Wife and Life After Life, and The Sudden Appearance of Hope. When Addie La Rue makes a pact with the devil, she is convinced she's found a loophole-immortality in exchange for her soul. But the devil takes away her place in the world, cursing her to be forgotten by everyone. Addie flees her tiny home town in 18th-Century France, beginning a journey that takes her across the world, learning to live a life where no one remembers her and everything she owns is lost and broken. Existing only as a muse for artists throughout history, she learns to fall in love anew every single day. Her only companion on this journey is her dark devil with hypnotic green eyes, who visits her each year on the anniversary of their deal. Alone in the world, Addie has no choice but to confront him, to understand him, maybe to beat him. Until one day, in a second hand bookshop in Manhattan, Addie meets someone who remembers her. Suddenly thrust back into a real, normal life, Addie realises she can't escape her fate forever.
“What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind? ”
This book enchanted me from the very beginning. The way its written is so alluring and just genius. Its France, 1714, a young woman makes a desperate plea for freedom to the gods in the dark, when the wrong deity listens. She is blessed with immortality, as well as cursed of being forgotten by everyone she meets. Addie leads a life of loneliness for centuries. Until one day in the 20th century, someone remembers her.
“Beautiful lyrical writing and amazing storytelling as usual from V.E. Schwab. ”
For 300 years, Addie LaRue has moved through life cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Until one day when she meets a man who cannot forget her.