The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
A woman trades her soul for immortality and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets, until three hundred years later a man in a bookshop says he remembers her. A devil romance disguised as a literary novel, and vice versa. On the House's scale it rates 2 for spice (warm), 4 for how much of the book is the romance, and 5 for craft. Readers who want a devil love interest and a standalone they can finish tonight.
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How it rates
- Author
- V.E. Schwab
- Series
- Standalone — nothing to wait for
- Spice
- Spice 2 out of 5, Warm2/5 · Warm
- Romance
- 4/5
- Plot
- 3/5
- Worldbuilding
- 3/5
- Darkness
- 4/5
- Writing craft
- 5/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- third person, dual
- Ending
- No happy ending
- Setting
- Three hundred years of Europe and America, ending in New York
- Audience
- Adult
- Pages
- 504
On the spice rating Occasional and brief, written more for melancholy than heat. How the scale works.
Content warnings suicidal ideation, loss, manipulation.
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