Charlotte May's Reviews > The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“It is sad, of course, to forget. But it is a lonely thing to be forgotten.”

I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected to! Adeline LaRue makes a deal with the darkness in order to escape an arranged marriage. But she doesn’t get what she thinks.

She is cursed to be forgotten. She can meet people, but if they turn away from her for more than 5 minutes they immediately forget ever meeting her.

She struggles through for hundreds of years from the small French village she grew up in, all the way to New York City. Making do with what she can.

Then one day she meets Henry Strauss. And he remembers her.

I thought it would be too romancy for me but I was swept away in this tale. There isn’t a huge amount of plot, it isn’t the most exciting or gripping, but the writing is beautiful. It tells of the difficulty in being human, what defines a human and how far we will go in order to get what we want most.

4 stars ⭐️


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I ordered this book from the library but it hadn’t arrived in my reservations yet.

I checked the system which said it was currently on the shelf in the library.

So when I went to collect my current reservations I asked if they could get it off the shelf for me.

Unfortunately they couldn’t find it. Someone must have mishelved it and it could be anywhere in the library.

Disheartened I left with my other reads only to get a phone call from the librarian to say they’ve found it!

I won’t be able to get to the library until next week but I’m excited to know this one will be waiting for me!