One thing I particularly like about The Invisible Life of Addie Larue is that Luc is right ; Addie shaped him.

She gave it a shape and a name.

I'm convinced that Luc didn't have a name before Addie gave him Luc's, or perhaps a very old name unpronounceable to humans, who knows. Or simply a title to designate the creature he is. But personally, I don't think he had any. After all, his first response to Addie's question was why he should have a name, not the one that he shouldn't tell her. Especially since if names do indeed have power in this universe as Addie and Luc say, it should be noted that yes, in the rest of the story Addie has power over Luc. Just letting her name it gave her power. It is precisely after this point in the book that the relationship really evolves. I don't think it's a coincidence. Names have power, and Addie begins to have a real influence on Luc after giving him one. (Therefore reinforcing my interpretation that he actually didn't have a name before Addie)

Also, she gave her a shape.

He have been used to taking on an appearance based on the people he met, and or simply speaking while remaining among the shadows, but strangely after taking on an appearance for Addie, he sometimes kept it beyond of her. This can be seen the first time he meets Henry. He presumably maintains the appearance Addie gave him outside of when he sees her. Which for a being such as Luc, is not nothing. Without forgetting the quote according to which Luc is deprived of stars at night, and that Addie, through her freckles, is rightly associated with the stars. Addie therefore helps complete Luc.

Just remember when Addie is at the marquise's house wearing her things, about to cover her freckles with makeup and Luc appears, with: “I would rather see clouds blot out the stars.”

DAMN HOT VILLAINS WITH DARK HAIR!!!!

Addie and Luc - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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The Invisible Life of Addie Larue

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i remember people being mad about the fact that addie larue’s whole shtick was that she wanted to travel the world and explore it’s art and culture and when it came down to it, she just went to europe, north america, and like two other places… mate, she’s a white french woman from the 1600s, of course she thinks europe is the only cultured place in the world. did you want her to take up kathak dancing in bombay like wtf did you expect?

"Even if everyone you meet remembered," He says , "I would still know you the best."

She searches his face."Do I know you?"

He rests his head over hers," You are the only one who does ."

-The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Do you know how to live three hundred years?” she says. And when he asks how, she smiles. “The same way you live one. A second at a time.”

- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (V.E. Schwab)

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐯. 𝐞. 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐰𝐚𝐛

“𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧, 𝐢𝐟 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝?”

In work I've seen a book named Hunting Adeline. I had to stop for a moment, because my first thought was "Luc, is this ~your~ version of the story?".

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I get so exasperated when I see people say that Luc can't love, or that he, and Addie included, can't. Like... WTF ? It is literally said in the text that the fact that they are not human therefore implies that they do not love like humans. But that doesn't stop them from doing it. Thinking about it, a supernatural, non-human being can't love you're just taking Addie's wrongheaded point of view. A character who has this way of contradicting herself a lot until the last page of the book ! Is it so narrow-minded to think that in a universe where supernatural creatures exist, only humans can love sincerely ? WTF ? There are tons of stories about demons falling in love ! Why Luc (who is not even the literal devil, or even a kind of demon, that is Addie's point of view, but the text itself and Luc, simply designate him as an ancient god, of those that the we begin to pray at night, making Luc's true nature even more obscure and overcoming this idea that he would be purely incapable of loving, since the narration designates him and finally shows him / simply as a being with a nature that is probably cloudy and complex), suddenly, couldn't be part of it, when the text itself parallels the two points of view of Addie and Luc. Namely that a non-human cannot love. And that of Luc which simply says that the way of loving is different in a non-human being. Especially since I still remember that Addie says she loves several times in the book, even though she is no longer human. Once again she contradicts herself or always says that it is not the same as in the Luc case. But that's because she can't accept that she's no longer human. And I'm talking about loving in the romantic sense of the word and also platonic. Obviously a non-human being can love ! Just not in a human way. Literally just look at Addie and how she comes to like people / her internal reasoning. But to think that, because it is different from the way humans generally love, or our own perception of the feeling of love in a broader sense ; Luc (especially) and Addie are incapable of truly loving anything ? It's such a depressing and reductive vision in my opinion. Especially in such a complex story.

Don’t text me: just cried my eyes out finishing The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. I honestly struggled trying to finish this book just because it’s not what I usually read, but the last 50 or so pages had me crying the whole time. I even had a feeling I knew how it would end and it still twisted my heart out. I heard how good it was and pushed through and I’m so glad I did.

Luc and Addie - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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“The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue” made me feel a storm of emotions. And here you can see my thoughts about this book. Specifically, I'll give my opinion on Luc and Addy's relationship. Addie lied to herself many times and she didn’t allow herself to be happy. She also convinced herself that her feelings for Luc weren't true love. She admits that she has made unrealistic promises to herself: "She will not linger in his arms. She will not fall asleep beside him. She will not feel anything but his lips on her skin, his hands tangled in hers, the weight of him against her. Small promises, but ones she does not keep. It is only sex. And then it is not."

I think her war is a waste of time, since they are not enemies for a long time, he doesn't need her soul and their feelings are mutual.

She can't prove that he’s not able to love. But she can hurt him (and herself, too). And Luc will be hurt precisely because he loves her. The first person to say "I remember," to Addie, was Luc:

"I remember, says the darkness in her ear."

"I remember, whispers the darkness, almost kindly, as if he's not the one who cursed her."

“And one night Addie wakes in the dark to the soft pressure of his fingertips drawing patterns on her skin, and she is struck by the look in his eyes. No, not the look. The knowing. It is the first time that she has woken up in bed with someone who hasn’t already forgotten her. The first time she’s heard her name again after the pause of sleep. The first time she hasn’t felt alone. And something in her splinters. Addie does not hate him anymore. Has not for a long time.”

Luc was always on Addie's mind, even while she was having sex with Henry: "And then they are on the bed, and for an instant, only an instant, she is somewhere else, somewhen else, the darkness folding itself around her. A name whispered against bare skin. But to him she was Adeline, only Adeline. His Adeline. My Adeline."

Addie wouldn't be able to fool Luc because he's not some stupid kid: "I am stronger than your god and older than your devil. I am the darkness between stars, and the roots beneath the earth. I am promise, and potential, and when it comes to playing games, I divine the rules, I set the pieces, and I choose when to play."

Addie is afraid to admit that she loves him. This will alienate her even more from people. Even though she hasn't been human for a long time. She says that Luc looks like a human, that he has warm hugs, but then insists that he is not human at all. She hears his racing heartbeat during their first kiss, and then claims there is silence in his chest. She says she's happy with him, but immediately echoes that it won't last. She doesn't believe Luc when he says the deal can be changed, but asks him to do so when she bargains for Henry's soul. But still we can see that Addie suffered every time she pushed him away and  when they were apart.

But all is not lost, because sometimes Addie is honest with herself: "Luc is the man she dreamed of when she was young, and then the one she hated most, and the one she loved, and Addie missed him every night that he was gone from her."  

If you compare Luc and the image of a lover that Addie dreamed up in her youth, you will understand that with every decade, Luc is more and more like him.

I really wish Addie and Luc wouldn't try to antagonize or find each other's weaknesses, but just have a sincere conversation. Cause I think instead of playing push and pull, it’s better for them to be honest with each other. And in that case they may build a healthy relationship and live happily together.

And if there’s anybody who thinks the way that I do, I really recommend you to read "Until We Are One" by Veratrance, a fanfiction that could definitely become an amazing continuation of the book ❤ .

love that in addie's story the good and bad parts are told, and how addie never gave up on living and always tried to have reasons not to give up, when i'm mentally and physically tired of life i think about her story and it calms my poor tired heart