The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

V.E. Schwab has said she reread the original Peter Pan and was struck by how sad it is that it ends with Peter already forgetting Wendy; Addie, whom everyone forgets the moment she leaves the room, grew from that.

A general rather than a specific debt. V.E. Schwab has said she always knew the book would be a Faustian bargain story and drew on the classic depictions of the pact: a young woman sells her soul to a dark god for freedom and pays by being forgotten by everyone she meets.