V.E. Schwab

V. E. Schwab (Victoria Elizabeth Schwab) is an American fantasy novelist, born on 7 July 1987 in California. She published her first adult novel, “Vicious”, in 2013, opening the Villains series about two morally ambiguous men gifted with powers. She is best known for the Shades of Magic trilogy — “A Darker Shade of Magic” (2015), “A Gathering of Shadows” and “A Conjuring of Light” — and for the standalone “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue” (2020), the story of a woman cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. She has also written the Cassidy Blake books for younger readers and the vampire novel “Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil” (2025).