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What I’m reading this week: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

This book was recommended to me from a friend. And then I started seeing people online review it – which I quickly escape from to avoid any spoilers – AND then I started seeing it show up in my great magazine pile. I knew that I needed to pick it up and see what all of the brouhaha was about.

You can quickly read what the book is about in the simple synopsis below if you want; but what I want to mention is the writing. This book is lovely. It’s slow, sometimes plodding, but magical at the same time. The actual story is what drew me in with this book. Not the plot, since you know what that is from the very beginning, but Addie’s story.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.

Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.

But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name. via

A good story is hard to find in my opinion and this book delivers one in spades. There are twists and turns that I didn’t see coming, and the ending was fantastic, if slightly predictable. But the story is wonderful. I’ll definitely reread this one and these days, there are few books that make me say that.

Have you read it? I’d loved to know what you thought!