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Lädt ... The Invisible Life of Addie LaRuevon V.E. Schwab
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. A poor village girl in 18th century France signs off her soul in a contract with Lucifer (?) in exchange for eternal life. The catch: no one will be able to remember her. An interesting, but overdone idea with a twist that made me curious about the execution. Due to the stellar reviews this book has got, and in need of a literary escape, I decided to give this a try. Did it deliver? Not exactly. First of all, I feel tricked. They promised me adult fiction, I strongly feel this book is more YA fiction than anything else. There was simply not enough substance in it. The prose is very poetic, almost to the point of being annoying (I am not a fan of overly romantic writing), but for me, it's just too saccharine. But, all of this I could easily forgive only if the story delivered. For a life spanning over 300 hundred years of recent history, it is a pretty boring one. The heroine is somewhat compelling, I'll give her that. But, she just doesn't end up doing anything interesting and she doesn't gain any wisdom as the centuries go by. We do get some breadcrumbs of info from her past, but seriously, she could've been born in the late 20th century and we wouldn't lose anything from this story. Sadly, Addie LaRue, I've already forgotten you. 2.5 stars. {stand alone; fantasy, urban fantasy} I'm reviewing this book now, months after having read it. This one stays with you, in a good way. Adeline LaRue was born at the end of the 17th century to a peasant couple in rural France. Curious and clever, she was given a little more freedom than most girls of her station and so she was allowed to drive in to the nearby town with her father when he went to trade and she spent time with Estelle, an old, independent woman who might be considered a witch. And so in 1714 at the age of 23, long after girls in her position should have been married, when Addie is promised (just because she's the only female available) to a man she cannot imagine spending the rest of her life with - thereby committing to a circumscribed life - in desperation she makes a deal with the darkness (an old god who claims he is not God or the devil) trading her soul for a chance to belong to no one but herself and explore the world. They say never ask for what you want because you might just get it. And so Addie lives indefinitely but is remembered by no-one, once she leaves their sight. I found this an intriguing concept and wrestled with the issues that being out of sight and literally out of mind brings. No one remembers Addie - not her parents or her friends; not any employers or landlords or boyfriends. Until Henry in 2014. I liked the interesting twist to the end. I thought it was amusing the way Schwab denotes her protagonists (and Addie's lovers) 'girl' and 'boy' even though Addie (at 300+ years) is frozen at 23 years old and Henry is about 30 years old. Sweeping; the narrative is set over more than 300 years and across the world. There is an impending sense of doom because the book starts in 1714 and follows Addie's long life but is interspersed with chapters from 2014 so you know there must be an ending soon. And you know that Addie must surrender her soul once she is tired of living ... I like the way Addie never gives up fighting even though she loses almost everything. But the darkness is always waiting for her. (April 2023) 4 stars keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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