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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : V. E. Schwab
Genre : Fantasy
This is such a surprising and inventive story that stretches across centuries. The writing is beautiful. Here’s an example: “March is such a fickle month. It is the seam between winter and spring—though seam suggests an even hem, and March is more like a rough line of stitches sewn by an unsteady hand, swinging wildly between January gusts and June greens. You don’t know what you’ll find until you step outside. It makes sense that she was born on the 10th of March, right along the ragged seam.”
Adeline LeRue is born in 1691. At age 23 is already too old to wed. She decides she does not want to marry, and makes a deal with the darkness between stars that gives her immortality with an unexpected twist—the minute she leaves someone’s presence, they will forget her. There is a marvelous thread about the language of eyes throughout the book that leads one on to a satisfying ending.
“She will come back to this moment a thousand times. In frustration, and regret, in sorrow, and self-pity, and unbridled rage. She will come to face the fact that she cursed herself before he ever did. But here, and now, all she can see is the flickering torchlight of Villon, and the green eyes of the stranger she once dreamed of loving, and the chance to escape slipping away with his touch. ‘You want an ending,’ she says. ‘Then take my life when I am done with it.'”
“As she walks, she studies Paris Makes a note of this house, and that road, of bridges, and carriage horses, and the gates of a garden. Glimpses roses belong the wall, beauty in the cracks. It will take years for her to learn the workings of this city. To memorize the clockwork of arrondissements, step by step, chart the course of every vendor, shop, an street. To study the nuances of the neighborhoods and find the strongholds and the cracks, learn to survive, and thrive, in the spaces between other people’s lives, make a place for herself among them. Eventually, Addie will master Paris.”
“Live long enough, and you learn how to read a person. To ease them open like a book, some passages underlined and others hidden between the lines.”
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