“Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy. There is always great chemistry between the main characters and for once the troubled family/nasty parents predicament were not overdone in this one. The writing was amazing as always and the jokes are always on point in Schwab’s books. The plot is definitely unique and I loved how fast the pace of the story felt. When things started to go wrong, she starts investigating and discover a huge missing gap in the hotel’s history and seeks to find out what happened. She hunts them in her new apartment, an ancient hotel, that she recently moved into after the death of her 10 year old brother. The Archive is a fantasy novel with a brilliant premise: a 16-year-old girl out hunting Histories (copies of dead people) who escaped The Archive and are going restless in the Narrows. The Archive is Schwab’s lesser known fantasy novel, a part of a trilogy but only the third book hasn’t been released (not sure if it ever will?) And whilst waiting for the final installment of Shade of Magic and Monsters of Verity to be released, I decided to find The Archive and give this a try. And that’s why I’m going to tear it down, shelf by shelf and branch for branch”Įver since I started reading V E Schwab’s books this year, I’ve been intrigued to collect all her famous fantasy novels. “The Archive is a prison, and not only for the dead. 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 hardwon redemption. 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. Da’s death was hard enough, but now that her little brother is gone too, Mac starts to wonder about the boundary between living and dying, sleeping and waking. 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.

Da first brought Mackenzie Bishop here four years ago, when she was twelve years old, frightened but determined to prove herself.

The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive. 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.

The archived by victoria schwab