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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

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 "Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end everyone wants to be remembered." The wonderful art is created by Mikrideb It is the year 1714 in a small village of France and Adeline, a young, wild girl full of dreams is about to get married against her will. As the noose of a miserable and unfulfilled life is getting tighter around her throat, Adeline escapes to the woods and she prays in the darkness for salvation only to be answered back by the Darkness himself. In her desperate desire for life beyond the confines of her small village, she strikes a deal with him: a long life in exchange for her soul, when she is done with it. But the Dark is ruthless and twists the deal into a curse, and so Addie is to be forgotten by everyone she meets, the second she is out of sight. For centuries she has moved through life as a ghost, until one day in a used-bookstore she meets Henry, who speaks the three little words that she has been longing to hear, "I rem