It is that one desperate moment to save yourself, one hope that
overwhelms you and you grasp tight to it, one blunt decision that changes your
life. That’s was the story of Adeline Larue. All she wanted was to save herself
and be free from everything. However, she did succeed and got freedom just like
she wanted but it cost her everything.
“The Invisible Life of Addie Larue”, is a story of a girl invisible
to the world. It was not the invisibility physically but people tend to forget
her once she was out of sight. Adeline Larue was a girl living in a small
village in France named Villon, with her parents. She was an innocent girl who
wanted to see the world, visits every beautiful city, and enjoy being free. She
used to roam around in her village and sometimes went out of the city with her
father. She liked to read books and enjoyed drawing with charcoal. Her mother
always scolded her and told her to act more like a woman but she did not pay
any heed to her bits of advice. There was one woman in the village, Estele, who
was known for her spiritual knowledge and wisdom. Addie liked and considered
her a mentor. She taught her how to pray to different gods, how to ask for
something from them. There were a few things she cleared to her that Gods are
greedy and if you want something, you have to exchange the most precious thing
you have. Alongside, she also warned her, “No matter how desperate or dire,
never pray to the gods that answer after dark.”
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Life was going all normal and humdrum routine for her when one day Addie’s
mother told her that she arranged her wedding with a man in the village. She
was taken aback by this news and wanted to refuse. She did not want to get
married, she wanted to live her life freely and seek the world outside of this
village but she knew her mother would not listen. She decided to run away.
Addie once drew a man of her dreams in the drawing book with
charcoal. “Black curls. Pale eyes. Strong jaw. Sloping shoulders and a Cupid’s
bow mouth. A man she’d never meet, a life she’d never know, a world she could
only dream of”, a description of that drawing. After Addie ran away on her
wedding day, the people of the village were after her. She desperately needed
to escape from there and it was getting dark. Despite Estele’s warning, she
called upon Gods of darkness and wanted their help.
Fortunately, a God did appear and the God looked exactly like the
boy of her dreams from her drawing. Later, she named him Luc (as referring to
Lucifer). She asked for his help, exchanges the most precious thing she had,
her father’s ring, and begged for his help. Addie did not realize that it was
dark and she was asking God of darkness for help.
“I do not want to belong to anyone but myself. I want to be free.
Free to live, and to find my way, to love, or to be alone, but at least it is
my choice, and I am so tired of not having choices, so scared of the years
rushing past beneath my feet. I do not want to die as I’ve lived, which is no
life at all”, these were Adeline’s words. Her wish was granted and Luc told her
that if she ever wanted to give up her immortal life, he will take her soul.
It’s been more than 300 years, Addie roaming around the world,
seeing World Wars, watching people born, getting young, and die. It was quite
painful to encounter people because as soon as she left, they would forget her.
One day, she met a boy named Henry who did not forget her, who
remembered her, and everything changed for her. She was stunned, happy, and
anxious about what happened. But both of them started to fall for each other.
The reason why he remembered her was that he also sold his soul to Luc for
being loved. He was living a miserable life, everyone accused him of something,
his family was disappointed with him, and so he asked Luc to make people love
him.
All this took an interesting turn as Luc was jealous of Addie
being with Henry. He turned the table and somehow ended everything in his
favor. Then again, Addie was all alone and there was only Luc who remembered
her.
This novel is a great fiction written by the author V.E. Schwab.
She tried to portray the problems women have been facing throughout history in
a social setup. How many girls like Adeline want freedom out there and suffer
for their innocence. This book is a beautiful combination of courage, freedom,
satanic energies, and a touch of romance.
This novel is summarized by Hafsah Afridi, one of the team members at the SOL Community.
