V.E. Schwab's "The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue" Being Adapted to Film

[kittenmittons]

HI I WROTE A FILM. https://t.co/FOjuq9zMFu
- Victoria/V.E. Schwab (@veschwab) October 1, 2020

- based on the newly-released novel: The story follows Addie LaRue, who makes a Faustian bargain to live forever. But in return, she’s cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. That all changes 300 years later, when she stumbles upon a man who

Comments

[just444]

I just finished that book!
[Spoiler (click to open)] didn't like it much tbh.

[kittenmittons]

[Spoiler (click to open)]I feel the same tbh. I liked the premise and liked a lot of the writing, but didn't feel like it really went anywhere and did not care for the ending. But it could be very pretty to look at onscreen, at least?

[kels]

Please spoil the plot for me?

[kittenmittons]

This won't be a great recap but I'll give it a go!

[Spoiler (click to open)]Addie makes a deal with a demon, basically, in 1700s France to save herself from getting married, and says he can have her soul when she's done with it. Which makes her immortal but also people forget her the moment she's out of sight and she can't leave anything of permanence - be in a photograph, leave a note, etc. - which makes it tough for her to actually live anywhere, as a landlord would forget they rented a room to her, for example. The book splits its time between her past, from 1714 onwards, and her life in NYC in 2014, where she basically finds someone she likes and then has to relive their first meeting every day, as the person will forget her when they go to sleep. We also find out that she and the demon, whom she calls Luc, have developed this odd closeness, which eventually does turn into a romance that ends some 30 years before. But then she meets this guy, Henry, who can remember her, and it's eventually revealed he made a deal with the same devil, to be what people

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[artlover2788]

I searched for this post bc I finished the book 10 minutes ago and I started crying. The writing was beautiful but yeah really no plot until the end. But I also cried in the beginning of the book because it was so sad when her loved ones didn't recognize her.

[narppi]

I am halfway and so bored.
It feels like an outline of a plot, and not a proper book.