When I saw the blurb for this book, featuring a library for the afterlife, I was hooked. Why did I read this book: Ana absolutely loved Victoria Schwab’s first book, The Near Witch, and ever since reading her review of that title I have been eager to give the author a try.
How did I get this book: Review Copy from the Publisher Stand alone or series: Book 1 in a planned series 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.
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. Genre: Contemporary, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult
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