The idea of everything in The Archived is an extremely inventive and frickin’ amazing. It’s slow paced, but it fits with the pensive tone of the story. Let me tell you that this book is dark, a bit creepy, and extremely mysterious. It totally obliterates my feelings and thoughts because of the sheer awesomeness of the prose. I am impressed by how beautiful and suspenseful it is. I find The Archived to be utterly profound. The Archived is a book I have a hard time talking about because I’m forever in awe of everything that Victoria Schwab had created and managed to make me feel. In this haunting, richly imagined novel, Victoria Schwab reveals the thin lines between past and present, love and pain, trust and deceit, unbearable loss and hard-won redemption.įirst sentence: “The narrows remind me of August nights in the South.” Unless Mac can piece together what remains, the Archive itself might crumble and fall. And yet, someone is deliberately altering Histories, erasing essential chapters. In the Archive, the dead must never be disturbed.

Mac starts to wonder about the boundary between living and dying, sleeping and waking. Da’s death was hard enough, but now her little brother is gone too. Because of her job, she lies to the people she loves, and she knows fear for what it is: a useful tool for staying alive.īeing a Keeper isn’t just dangerous-it’s a constant reminder of those Mac has lost. Now Da is dead, and Mac has grown into what he once was, a ruthless Keeper, tasked with stopping often-violent Histories from waking up and getting out. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive.ĭa first brought Mackenzie Bishop here four years ago, when she was twelve years old, frightened but determined to prove herself. Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.Įach body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures that only Librarians can read. Amazon | Barnes & Noble | The Book Depository

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