The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 1: Dreamers and Wanderers

In this episode, we discuss Part One of V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, discuss its genre and its style, defend the flexibility of third-person present-tense narration, and start to follow breadcrumbs into the past.

Next week, we continue our reading with Part Two.

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Unanswered Questions:

• Who or what is the darkness with whom Addie makes her pact?
• If ideas and art and belief are the same — or at least similar — then what are memories?
• What’s so special about Henry, anyway?

Footnotes:

• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
• V.E. Schwab
• Will Staehle
• Julia Whelan
• François Villon
• Charles Perrault
• The Sword of Shannara
• The Many-Colored Land
• Daggerspell
• The Eye of the World

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