ve schwab the invisible life of addie larue

I can't help but compare with Anne Rice, who wrote about immortality in a much more compelling way. I'm also not sure that just because you live longer means you can master all languages (and who would ever teach her? They can't remember her!). The author never manages to accurately describe how unbearably lonely it would become, how doomed Addie would feel. Saying 'This song reminds me of my time in Rome, Chicago, Paris, Vienna' or '100 years have passed since I made the deal' is just not enough! I never for one second believed that Addie did live for 100, 200 or 300 years. The thing most writers don't get is that it's not enough to just name drop places and dates left and right.

It takes an outstandingly skilled writer to write about immortality convincingly. In French, I'd say 'Circulez, y a rien à voir' aka 'Move along, people, nothing to see'. This book sucks - it sucks so badly that I don't understand how it could be so popular. She will have to choose - him, or redemption for her soul. This cursed mortal girl ends up falling in love with the Devil. She also grows to understand that there is beauty to be found in wrinkled faces, that old people aren't withered and dry, but rich and wise and loving in ways she can never be. That living without being able to make lasting human connections is hell. Over a span of 300 years, she finally understands that growing old is, in fact, not a curse - that living forever, stuck at 23, is. The Devil offers her immortality and eternal youth and in exchange, she can never be remembered by anyone.

A naive 23-year-old girl makes a deal with the Devil because she thinks getting married and growing old is the worst thing that could ever happen to her.

Ve schwab the invisible life of addie larue