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Addie LaRue is a young woman in 1700s rural France who makes a deal with a god of darkness, which promises her freedom and being tied to no one — but cursed with the fact that everyone she meets will forget her.
I challenged myself to read something out of my comfort zone; this 1933 classic (updated in 2020 with gorgeous illustrations) did not disappoint.
Kinda fun if you're into Duchamp and/or thrillers, but not really worth it.
Even though the story was set in the Depression, rarely did the historical period enter into the story. And maybe this was the magic of Britto's novel: it was the tale of one girl, and her longing for a bigger family, and her envy/love for her best friend.
The narrator is unlikable and unreliable, and while that is not a bad thing, the lack of plot makes it hard to invest in simply anything that is happening in the story.
