from analyzing what doesn’t work in Addie LaRue. But I do think there is something to learn about writing, editing, etc. I’m not trying to roast Schwab - I think she’s a talented person who comes up with some cool creative concepts and writes decent prose.
I think she tends to overwrite, and this results in frustrating redundancy in exposition, plot points, and emotional impact. But after picking up The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, a book that should absolutely be up my alley, I started to realize that something just doesn’t really work for me in Schwab’s writing style. At the time, I assumed it was just a genre thing (I've never been big on the superhero/supervillain genre). I tried her Villains series but lost interest. I read her Darker Shades of Magic novels years ago and enjoyed them (although I think I would approach them more critically if I read them now). Schwab’s new release: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Suddenly thrust back into a real, normal life, Addie realises she can’t escape her fate forever.I recently started reading V.E. Until one day, in a second hand bookshop in Manhattan, Addie meets someone who remembers her. Alone in the world, Addie has no choice but to confront him, to understand him, maybe to beat him. 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. Existing only as a muse for artists throughout history, she learns to fall in love anew every single day.
But the devil takes away her place in the world, cursing her to be forgotten by everyone.Īddie 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.
When Addie LaRue makes a deal with devil, she trades her soul for immortality. Please note that we have now sold out of the Signed Edition.
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