![]() ![]() Addie has made a deal with the devil to live forever, and books like this show you why we all fear the curtain coming down. Every sentence is gorgeously constructed, every metaphor lands true, and every word is heartbreaking – heartbreaking because it brings you closer to the end. It’s a masterwork – a feat of wordcraft so exquisite it’s hard to imagine creating anything better. ‘The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue’ is the best book VE Schwab has ever written. How do you capture transcendence with twenty-six little letters? VE Schwab has found the answer – but I can’t fathom how to possibly do her work justice. It’s ironic – after all, words are all that form the book in the first place – but no other words can quite create the same brilliance, the same beauty, the same resonance. ![]() Some books are impossible to capture in mere words. ![]()
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