{"id":19283,"date":"2022-08-25T05:27:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T11:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=19283"},"modified":"2022-08-24T17:07:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T23:07:53","slug":"book-36-of-52-the-invisible-life-of-addie-larue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/book-36-of-52-the-invisible-life-of-addie-larue\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 36 (of 52) \u2013 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19290\" style=\"width: 434px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=19290\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19290\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19290\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19290\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/addielarue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/addielarue.jpg 424w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/addielarue-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue &#8211; V.E. Schwab<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 18th century France, a young girl makes a deal with a devil to avoid marrying a widower she does not love.\u00a0 In exchange for her soul, she gets to live as long as she likes, retaining her youth and beauty, but she will be unable to make any mark on the world and no one, including her parents, will remember her once she leaves their sight.\u00a0 In the early 21st century, after nearly 300 years of being cursed, she meets a man who somehow is able to remember.\u00a0 Their relationship, however, has a pre-destined end date, unless she is able to convince her devil to alter one of his deals.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue<\/em>, by V.E. Schwab, is not my usual fare, but I greatly enjoyed the ride.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not entirely sure how this got on my radar, but I&#8217;m glad it did.\u00a0 Schwab&#8217;s other works look to be of the type of fantasy that I do not really go for, so this may be a one time visit to the world of her work, but if she follows this up with something as strong, I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll find its way to my Kindle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 18th century France, a young girl makes a deal with a devil to avoid marrying a widower she does not love.\u00a0 In exchange for her soul, she gets to live as long as she likes, retaining her youth and beauty, but she will be unable to make any mark on the world and no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2889,10159,10160],"class_list":["post-19283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-kindle","tag-the-invisible-life-of-addie-larue","tag-v-e-schwab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19292,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19283\/revisions\/19292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}