In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times best-selling author V. E. Schwab’s genre-defying tour de force.
A life no one will remember. A story you will never forget.
France, 1714: In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever – and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.
Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.
But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.
雪兔子Mary
精彩! 猜测作者读过Kate Atkinson的“Life After Life”,因为不仅整体给人的感觉有点像,这本书里也提到了“LAL”。 这本书名字虽然是“The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue”,它却是从两个人的角度讲述的两个人和一个神的故事。 其实Henry和Addie一样也是“隐形”的。Addie无法被人记住所以invisible,而Henry真实的模样无法被人看到所以invisible。被看到,被记住,两个生命中十分重要的事情。爱和占有也是书里的一个话题,Darkness(Luke)对Addie的是一种占有欲而Addie和Henry之间的才是真正的爱。
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The whole book is Addie saying: I belong to myself "Ich gehor' nur mir!" The love or lust or hate in between doesn't matter, even if she cherish the love she shared with Henry. She wants to be free.
Zaffiro
青春不老的题材写出了新意,三百多岁的女主并不像吸血鬼题材等的主角那样过上低调奢华的生活,也无需担心真实身份暴露,因为她总是被人轻易转身便忘记,只能四处游荡。对于转化她的夜魔描写得像个典型的霸道总裁,给女主带来痛苦却又多次帮助和拯救他。
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a fitting end .
Derek_Yang
本书讨论了人与人之间心理连接的重要性,对两个主角的心理描写得很好。感觉自己和Henry很有共鸣。而且书中记录女主长达三百年的人生体现了人类历史上时代和观念的变迁,学世界史的时候听听挺有趣的