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. I am the darkness between stars, and the roots beneath the earth. "I am stronger than your god and older than your devil. ➽ Luc - A god you should never pray to after dark, unless you are very desperate, and feel very helpless, and are willing to pay the unknown price. And he happens to be able to see a girl that has never been remembered before. ➽ Henry - Works at a bookstore in New York while trying to live his life to the fullest. "Spells are for the witches, and witches are too often burned." And when she turns twenty-three, and everyone thinks her time is slowly running out, she quickly finds out that time is something she will never have to fear again. She was born in a small town, and had small town expectations placed on her, but Addie had big dreams and desired to see as much of the world as she possibly could. ➽ Addie - A girl with seven freckles, and she is told that there is one for every love she would ever have. Schwab has been working on for a decade and you can tell they really put their whole heart and soul into these complex characters:
Many of you know, this is something that V.E. How do I even begin to describe this book to you? There are truly so many layers woven together to make this story.
I will say that I think this book (and more importantly the ending) could be a bit polarizing, but this story, this main character, and the way everything was structured just really worked perfectly for me and my reading tastes. Schwab that I’ve given five stars to, and I’m not sure a day has passed since reading that I haven’t thought about it.
This is all about a young girl who lives her life for herself, who lives her life in spite of the odds, who lives her life in hopes someone will recall her from memory.Įverything about Addie LaRue completely blew me away. This is a tale of power dynamics and imbalances and what humans are willing to do to not feel trapped and alone. This is a book about a girl, a boy, a devil, and the stories that get told and repeated and remembered. "Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. ARC provided by Tor in exchange for an honest review.
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