What would you trade for a life of freedom?
Addie LaRue was warned that whoever you pray to and whatever you believe, do not make deals with the Gods of the night and dark.
But when desperation takes over, Addie breaks that very rule.
She makes a deal.
Everlasting freedom, but at the price of being eternally alone. Abandoned. Forgotten.
It’s been over 300 years since Addie made her deal and not a single soul since that day can remember her once she’s out of sight. She’s had a thousand first impressions with just as many names and a hundred first dates with the same men, who have no idea they are sleeping with a virtual ghost.
Unable to say even her own name, Addie has resigned to existing out of spite.
But then someone says it.
“I remember you.”
Okay, I loved this book. Like 10/10 would recommend.
It’s soft and subtle, beautiful, and utterly, shamelessly heart-wrenching.
You jump from past to present, there are interludes that almost feel like they could be from another book but somehow still work and it helps that visually the book is STUNNING.
I’ve always said, I’m a sucker for a pretty face and apparently, it’s no different with books. Give me a shiny cover or a pretty pattern any day.
When I read this book, I kept coming back to this quote I remember from ages ago. Not sure from what but it went something like this:
“Immortality is not living forever. It’s everyone else dying. And you are left forever, alone.”
The concept of never dying is nice. Death is frightening.
But a hundred years? A thousand? With no one to remember you, no way to make a single, lasting connection with anyone?
At least you see people in heaven when you die. If you believe in that sort of thing, I guess.
I’d heard good things about V.E Schwab’s work and I can say that one book down, I’m not disappointed. I definitely want to read more of their books.
So remember my dears…
Don’t make deals with the gods who answer after dark.
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