This book is about Addie LaRue, a French girl who was born in the 1700s. She was always warned not to pray to the gods who answer when it gets dark. But on a desperate night, she does it and she gets an answer. Addie ends up making a pact with the devil: now she will live forever, but she will be forgotten by everyone. Until one day, 300 years later, a boy says the words that change everything: I remember you.

It’s a unique story about a village girl’s true demand for her independence who wants to make choices about her own life. She doesn’t want to be someone’s wife and somebody’s mother. So, she prays for the old gods and new gods but nobody answered her prayers but somebody heard.

Anyone she meets forgets her a few seconds later. That was the punishment the evil she called Luc gave her. She cannot even tell her name and write it anywhere. Only the devil can call her name.

So Adeline shortens her name as Addie and starts her epic adventure, witnessing the world’s history, mostly spending her time in European countries, seeing the French Revolution, world wars, artistic, political, social economic movements and awakening of the cities. She loved, she suffered, she was neglected, abandoned, abused. She lived like a fugitive in people’s houses, learning to be a skilled thief.

But her biggest strength is her stubbornness because, no matter how lonely she is, how she witnesses the people she fell for treating her like a stranger each time she meets them again, she learns from experiences. And she is wise enough to become unforgettable by living her thumb prints to the many art masterpieces from the drawings to the songs, books. She enjoyed the art and she was talented enough to leave her trace. That’s the real essence of immortality she contributed to the changing world.

But 300 years of solitude and loneliness end when she stops by the bookstore. Henry, the owner of the store, is feeling too much, suffering from a broken heart and melancholia looking for something but as like the song he still hasn’t found what he’s looking for. Till he sees the girl tries to trick him by stealing books and he remembers her name.

Even though Addie is lonely, cursed, abandoned, she has strong willpower, tough and fearless because she never regrets the life she has lived. This book is about history taking shape, about stories and ideas taking root in unseen places. It’s about life and art and humans and how, even after one hundred years or three hundred years, there is yet more to find. Unknowns to see. Novelties to discover. And it is all the more memorable because of it.

“Art is about ideas. And ideas are wilder than memories. They’re like weeds, always finding their way up.”

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