I LOVE LOVE LOVE this book! My rating is through the roof with this one. It kind of reminded me of my own book with loneliness as a central theme, but with a much more deeper connection to it. This was a big read, but I couldn’t put it down. It took me two days tops to finish it.

It’s about a French girl named Addie LaRue (duh) who was born in the 1600s so you can already guess how her normal life was. Get married young, have kids, cook and clean for your husband until you meet the grave. Yeah…it sucks. She reaches her early twenties and she’s way overdue to get married to a man she doesn’t love. On her wedding day she runs off to the woods to pray to the Gods for help, for a way out of her set life.

Let’s pause for a second…this sounds like your normal story. A girl running away from her fate, praying to a God, but gets way more than she bargains for. Okay…un-pause.

A dark God answers her cries and gives her a life of complete freedom. The only thing is that she didn’t know that freedom comes with a price and a great sacrifice. No one remembers her. If you leave her in a room for a few seconds and come back, you will have no idea who she is. It’s sad, right? She lives her life like this all the way to modern times being just a ghost on someone’s memory. That is until she goes to a bookstore and the guy behind the register remembers her the very next day. This is where things get interesting.

What I really love about this book is that is takes you from past to present throughout giving you the backstory and important events that happened through her life. It dwells into the main character’s sadness and how the loneliness devoured her, but she never gave in to the dark God. It’s about strength and persevering through this life when you think you’re alone. Not only is the writing beautiful, but the story that Schwab weaves is just breathtaking on every page.