The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

And I'm actually reading it with a book buddy and it's a V.E. Schwab story.

She wrote The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, which was a Doolittle recommendation during the pandemic.

And it's called Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil and it spans centuries of time and it flips point of views between several characters.

All women.

I'm Brian Larson of At Brian Reads, and today's episode is so special.

My guest today is V.E. Schwab, the number one New York Times bestselling author of 28 books, including The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The Fabulously Queer, Bury Your Bones in the Midnight Soil, The Shades of Magic Universe, and of course, the Villain series.

And today we're talking about something readers have waited a very long time for, including myself.

Vicious arrived in 2013, Vengeful arrived in 2018, and now 13 years after we first met Victor Vail and Eli Ever, and eight years after that extraordinary Vengeful ending, VE is back with the third and final installment, Victorious.

It's an experience, and one that can conjure colours, textures, and whole moods.

The book Rian chose is V.E. Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, a text about memory, identity, and the longing to be remembered.

We talk about what it means to leave a mark on someone, the bargains that we make with ourselves, and how easily it can fill the gaps when we think we know a person.

Frianne brings perfume pairings to match the book's many moods, and we get into collecting perfumes as memory objects and the very real anxiety of reaching the bottom of a beloved bottle.

is a hard pivot, but what we're doing is we're talking about memories and sense.

The book that you've selected, which is very much around memory, so there's a lot that we can explore there and I don't want to dive too deeply into that without necessarily talking about the book because there's so much that's going to blend together with that.

Do you want to introduce the book that you selected, Rhiann? The book I chose was The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.

And it's by V.E. Schwab.

You guys know this if you've been here for a while.

I started listening to Addie LaRue so long ago.

But I think I want to read it.

You guys are also resting on Bury Your Bones.

Next up, tell us about Victorious by V.E. Schwab.

So I'm not really a fantasy reader, and I stumbled on a book of hers called The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, and I really liked it.

And so I picked up this fantasy series almost by accident.

And you get this whole villains trilogy, and it's, this is its last book, so I highly recommend to go back to the beginning.

What about you?

For me, it's The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.

Yes.

Yes.

Beautifully written as well.

Yeah.

I would also maybe say The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.

[chuckles]

Um, some audiobooks that have worked for me in the past include Good People, Light Breakers, Evie Drake Starts Over, This Story Might Save Your Life, Heartwood, and Falling.

Books that have not worked for me on audio include The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, The Women, in part because I'm already sad about having to wash my dishes.

I don't also wanna be sad about the Vietnam War.

And God of the Woods.

And Life of Pi is one of them, for example.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is another one.

And those are two books that are really about how you tell a story and about how you leave a legacy.

So I find it interesting that that's what my brain snags on too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue.

Such an incredible book.