This book was beautiful and heartbreaking all at once! It’s a wild ride, going back with a lot of flashbacks through history, but the way it’s told is beautifully done, and I really enjoyed it. (Even if it took me a while to read because it’s quite chunky.)
I say through history, because our main narrator, Addie Larue, is a time traveller with no real thumbprint on the world. That sounds strange, doesn’t it? She’s from a time long ago, and when she was supposed to be married off to someone she didn’t love, she made a deal with a kind of devil, meaning she could live forever but never be remembered. So a lot of the book goes backward and forward from the present day, with her living in the US, to her old life in France before she made the deal. This way, we start to unravel what really happened to her and why she has ended up the way she is. She’s fiery and strong, and bisexual, and because no one will ever remember her, she finds it tough to hold friendships. We see her going back to the same lovers even though they see her as a stranger each time they meet up, or friends, etc. But then she meets someone: Henry Strauss, and he remembers her.
Apparently he made a deal with the same devil, only his one leaves him with only 35 days left to live, by the time the two of them begin to form a relationship.
As I said, heartbreaking! I saw other readers talking about it on BookTok saying it would leave you in tears, and it didn’t go that way for me, but it was an emotional book, and a great read. Definitely give it a shot if you want a YA book with a supernatural twist, that feels timeless.
April Grace 