VICTORIA "V. E." SCHWAB is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books, including the acclaimed Shades of Magic series, the Villains series, This Savage Song, and Our Dark Duet. Her work has received critical acclaim, been featured in the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Washington Post and more, been translated into more than a dozen languages, and has been optioned for television and film. When she's not haunting Paris streets or trudging up English hillsides, she lives in Edinburgh, Scotland and is usually tucked in the corner of a coffee shop, dreaming up monsters.

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Praise for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue:
"For someone damned to be forgettable, Addie LaRue is a most delightfully unforgettable character, and her story is the most joyous evocation of unlikely immortality."
-- Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods and winner of multiple Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards

"Completely absorbed me enough to make me forget the real world." --Jodi Picoult,Washington Post

"Victoria Schwab sends you whirling through a dizzying kaleidoscopic adventure through centuries filled with love, loss, art and war -- all the while dazzling your senses with hundreds of tiny magical moments along the way.The Invisible Life of Addie Laruewill enchant readers as deeply as its heroine's Faustian bargain; you will find yourself in quick turns both aching with heartbreak, and gleefully crowing at the truly delicious, wicked cleverness in store."
--Naomi Novik, Nebula and Locus Award-winning author ofSpinning Silver

"Addie Larueis a book perfectly suspended between darkness and light, myth and reality. [This novel] is--ironically--unforgettable." --Hugo Award winner Alix E. Harrow, author ofThe Ten Thousand Doors of January

"The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is the kind of book you encounter only once in a lifetime. . . . A defiant, joyous rebellion against time, fate, and even death itself--and a powerful reminder that the only magic great enough to conquer all of it is love."--Peng Shepherd, author ofThe Book of M

"Sweeping in its scope yet wonderfully intimate, it's dark and sexy yet romantic and heartbreaking."--Rebecca Roanhorse,Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author ofBlack Sun

"Rich and satisfying."-Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

"A knockout."-Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"Epic."-Library Journal, Starred Review

"Deeply romantic, impossibly detailed."-Booklist, Starred Review

"A delightful surprise and a balm in difficult times.."-BookPage, Starred Review

"Schwab's page-turner is an achingly poignant romantic fantasy about the desperate desire to make one's mark on the world."--Oprah.com, Best LGBTQ Books of 2020

"A beautiful, meditative novel with an ending that hit me right in the heart."--Buzzfeed, Best Fall Fantasy 2020

"It's a bit cheeky to callThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRueFaust for romantic bisexual goths, but it's not wrong... I for one will most certainly remember her."--NPR

"Addieis unlike anything Schwab has written before--epic yet intimate, sweeping but not sprawling... IfAddieshows anything, it's that the impact of our actions and interactions can be vaster and longer-lasting than we can predict. Much like the seven freckles that sprinkle Addie's face, we create our own constellations, and as we live through these darkened days, I feel brighter for having addedAddieto mine."--Slate

"Schwab beautifully explores what it means to be alone for so long that it's jarring and terrifying once you are finally seen...Addie is an independent and fascinating character who manages to make her mark in spite of the odds."--USA Today

"Schwab's writing is warm and intense, and the passages set in the past often make you feel as if you're reading by candlelight...The book is an elegant comment on the erasure of women from recorded history, but not a pointed one; you never feel that Addie LaRue is a metaphor. She is a woman fighting literally to be seen while bearing witness to her own life, and I rooted for her throughout."--New York Times Book Review

"One of the most propulsive, compulsive and captivating novels in recent memory."--Washington Post

"There is no particular art to literary fiction that doesn't exist in fiction of other genres, and V. E. Schwab's new bookThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRueisn't just an amazing book for its genre; it's an amazing book, full stop...a gorgeous, immersive story...Schwab is an inclusive, ambitious, and exacting writer, and she doesn't let either her characters or her readers off the hook...This book doesn't blend genres, or even transcend genre."--Chicago Review of Books

"This evocative and clever tale will leave you smiling, filled with love and longing for more magical moments in everyday life."--CNN, Best Books of October

"Expansive and utterly heart-wrenching...both heartbreaking and hopeful. I read the last hundred pages well into the night, gasping and sobbing. It's a beautiful read."--Book Riot, 25 Must Read New Fantasy Books

"A remarkable, genre-defying epic of a woman fighting to thrive in a world that denies her existence....stunning."--Shelf Awareness for Readers

"When I first finishedAddie LaRue, I sat back with a deep sense of wonder. Schwab's words had weaved their spell and left me starstruck... eloquent and beautiful...Addie LaRuesparks something internally as you read and what is the point of reading, if not to feel?"--The Nerd Daily