![]() ![]() Epic and intimate at once, it asks what art is. romantic, ambitious, and defiantly, deliberately hopeful. defies genre, blending romance and history, fantasy and monstrosity, cresting through peaks of time, centered on a young (and also, technically very old) woman with both less and more agency than anyone alive. weaves wonderings of art, of influence, of storytelling and legacy and the question of what we are to each other, all within a deliciously haunting queer fairytale. Her propulsive, lyric prose is here, her morally complex, entrancing characters, her unique shape of magic, all wrought within this entirely fresh premise that will no doubt become a long-lasting favorite. You don’t need to have read Schwab’s other books to enjoy Addie-it’s a great introduction to her work-but the many fans who go into this book with expectations will find them thoroughly met and more. Like an author stretching out, exhaling, expanding, taking the scope to tell a different sort of story. ![]() But Addie does feel like a career triumph. It feels unfair to relegate any of her other masterpieces as a part of an ascent, and I so look forward to her future work already. I don’t want to say this book exemplifies a writer at the top of her game, because anyone who’s read Schwab’s other books knows, she just hits peak after peak. ![]()
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