The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab, 2020
A girl who cannot be remembered makes a bargain with the dark—and then meets a boy who does.
V.E. Schwab
Feels like identity, morality and memory.
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Schwab publishes YA fantasy as Victoria Schwab and adult fantasy as V.E. Schwab, writing across both names and readerships.
The difference between being remembered and being known.
Last night, she told him hers was Jess. She lied, but only because she can’t say her real name—one of the vicious little details tucked like nettles in the grass. Hidden barbs designed to sting. What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind? She has learned to step between the thorny weeds, but there are some cuts that cannot be avoided—a memory, a photograph, a name. Books by V.E. Schwab
Vicious
V.E. Schwab, 2013
Two former friends with extraordinary powers and no moral brakes hunt each other across a cold, comic-book-dark America. A superhero story told from the villain's side.
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