The idea that people become ‘histories’ when they die and the Archive is a library of the dead, guarded by librarians, seems so simple, but so intriguing. I loved the concept for this book from the moment I first heard about it. The idea that people become ‘histories’ when they die…seems so simple, but so intriguing. The story follows Mackenzie ‘Mac’ Bishop, a Keeper at the Archive, as she moves to a new apartment with her family and tries to discover why so many histories keep waking up. The slow-paced start had me worried that I wasn’t going to like the story as much as I wanted to. This book has trigger warnings for violence and the death of a sibling (off-page). So on the first of July, I picked up my copy of The Archived and read the first few chapters. The main reason for the readalong was to celebrate Victoria Schwab’s books on the run up to the release of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, so we thought a good way to do that would be to read one of her books that neither of us had read before. So, when Alison and I planned Schwab Readalong, we decided to make it the first book we read. (I know.) It’s Victoria Schwab’s second novel and one of the last few I need to read before I’ve read all of her publised works. Before July 2020, I’d never read The Archived before.
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