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"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 trades her soul for immortality. But there's always a price - 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. Read more
Publisher : Titan Books (UK); Titan edition (October 6, 2020)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1785652508
ISBN-13 : 09
Item Weight : 3.53 ounces
Dimensions : 7.99 x 1.77 x 5.47 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #788,439 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #74,034 in Fantasy (Books)
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Customer Reviews: 4.5 out of 5 stars 62,244 ratings
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I don't read a lot of fantasy. It is not because I don't like fantasy, it is because editors and agents in the adult fantasy world often do a terrible job of copy editing, and I end up finding small errors which takes me out of the story. One could argue that in this world of deep fiction there is no error, but in fact continuity is key to keeping up the rouse. Also, if you level of abstraction is such that your fantasy is taking place in a real place or a real time, or both, there are certain elements that need to reflect that. This was a great story, and it was not until halfway through the novel that there were the continuity errors. One being Henry's brother should be working at Mt. Sinai, not just Sinai. Two, so Luc's various last names mean "the Woods" but the German translation of duBois is ImWald, Holz, Von der Wald... Also the sexual fluidity of the two main character, does not need to be explained, but seems to fall relatively flat. It seems like it was just thrown into the book to seem relevant. I think if you're going to do modern fantasy with representative sexualities, in a story that spans 300 years, a little chit chat about the evolving nature of sexuality in the last 300 years might help... I mean I really got taken out of the story with some of these plot and continuity holes... Same goes for the very Eurocentric nature of the novel, and the lack of review on race or disenfranchisement. It doesn't need to be a political novel with like deep dive discussions, just a contextual mention that race in the US in the 1950's is different than in France in the 1700s, and maybe this main character benefits greatly in her little spell because she is in essence a cis white women.And I am a cis white women. Other than that, it is a nice little story, but I am kind of put off by her weird sexual attraction to the amorphous creature that Luc really is. I think the point of the novel was to extrapolate on patience in love, but just, I don't think I have it in me to fall for a sinister g-dlike creature that is clearly not human, but maybe because I am human?? I just didn't find his "smoldering" nature attractive, I found it abusive. But this novel really did make me think, and I looked forward to seeing what happened next in the four nights it took me to read it. So there you go...
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 14, 2022 by DomeniqueCY
This story is not going to be for everyone. I think it is going to be a love it or hate it with little in between for most. I found it fascinating with the beautiful prose and interesting way that Addie came to see her life. I for the most part enjoyed this tale of a girl trapped at twenty-three with no way to leave a mark on the world and forgotten by anyone who meets her in the blink of an eye. ***“...it is sad, of course, to forget. But it is a lonely thing, to be forgotten. To remember when no one else does.”*** Adeline longed for adventure as a child. She begged her father to travel with him and see the other cities and was allowed to until she reached an age when she should be thinking of other things like being a wife and mother. But Addie wanted so much more than that. On the day of a wedding she never wanted Addie makes a deal with one of the gods after dark. The gods of the night are not kind and the one she made a deal with wants her soul. ***“I am stronger than your god and older than your devil. I am the darkness between stars, and the roots beneath the earth. I am promise, and potential, and when it comes to playing games, I divine the rules, I set the pieces, and I choose when to play.”*** With a deal struck Addie will not age, she will feel pain but it will not stick, hunger but she will not waste away. Still the cruelty of it is that she cannot draw or write or do anything that might leave a mark on the word herself. She is forgotten by everyone around her and it will be just like that for three hundred years, until she meets a boy who says three words…I remember you. This is much a character study more than anything else. We follow Addie in her life past and present to learn the full scope of her story. How she went from the child begging in the woods to the woman no one remembers. But Addie has found a way to leave her mark in songs, stories, drawings and paintings. She is the muse that is not remembered, not really but hinted at and almost captured in moments. ***“The first mark she left upon the world, long before she knew the truth, that ideas are so much wilder than memories, that they long and look for ways of taking root”*** The Dark has been her fickle companion through the years popping in to see if she is done with this life and ready to surrender her soul to him. Addie never falters, she never gives but he is the only one that remembers her and in her years alone she finds they are much the same. Let’s just say their relationship is complicated and full of history. Henry, ah how I love our broken Henry. He is the first person in three-hundred years to see Addie and remember her. The only person that she can say her name to. Addie sees the real Henry too and it is something he hasn’t had for a while. I do love how broken yet sweet our Henry is. ***“I see someone who cares,” she says slowly. “Perhaps too much. Who feels too much. I see someone lost, and hungry. The kind of person who feels like they’re wasting away in a world full of food, because they can’t decide what they want.”*** Their love affair is sweet and doomed but all the best ones are. Will this book be for you? That is a good question. I think the answer to that is if you are a more patient reader that loves to get lost in some great prose, interesting characters and don’t mind waiting for a story to slowly unfold, then certainly this could be for you. But if you are look for more things happening during the story then possibly not. I have one and only one complaint for this and it is that I did want a little more time with Addie and the Dark together bantering and fighting throughout the years. Also, the ending may not sit well with everyone, but I thought it fitting. I think that it is how Addie feels at that moment but I remember the Dark is patient and will most likely change her mind down the road. Time for them is still vastly different. ***“What she needs are stories. Stories are a way to preserve one's self. To be remembered. And to forget. Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. And books. Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives—or to find strength in a very long one.”*** I really enjoyed my read of this book. It has a lot of things that really work for me in stories. The ending while not perfect, fit well the situation and made me think. I think the Dark is going to surprise Addie once again.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 1, 2020 by Robin Snyder
I'm having a delayed emotional response right now. So I'll have to sit with this for awhile. When I do I'll come back to edit my review, I'm sure, but for now I need to get out what I've got. First I need to say the voice this author writes with is so beautiful that it awoke the jealousy in me as a writer, which is always a beautiful thing. The metaphors, allegories, the descriptions that carried on, the way the story folded in upon itself and then opened up. It was beautiful to behold. Is this a conventional love story? Hardly. Is this going to offer you a warm, fuzzy happy ending? Nope. Not in the way you expect. And probably not in the way you want. But it's real. It's an unromanticized story of love. And I can appreciate that. A lot. I will say I lost count of how many times this book made me cry. The last fifty pages? Read them with a box of tissues. And bill V.E. for the therapy you'll need after you finish.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 9, 2022 by Delta
This was one of the saddest books Ive ever read. But it's also one of the most inspirational. To walk through the world every day knowing that no one will remember you. That you can't even tell any who you are or anything about you and still do it day after day fighting the sheer loneliness and heartbreak of it all. That's courage, determination, and the sheer will to survive against all odds . I loved Addie's personality her ability to constantly reinvent herself and her strength to not give up not matter what losses she endured. This was an excellent book and although my heart broke for Addie I couldn't help but be motivated by her as well
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 24, 2022 by Kminyat