And with her set of circumstances, having had a Keeper as her grandfather, having lost her kid brother about a year ago, it is also a unique exploration of grief in that she knows the answer to the question – what comes next? – but it also isn’t entirely a comfort for her. This made Mackenzie’s job as a Keeper harder, because these Histories can wake up, walk around and escape from the Archive, through the middlespace called the Narrows, and into the Outer, our world, and its her job to guard the exit to the Outer. Before starting this book, I thought that the person’s life story was stored in a book, like, you know, the Library of the Neitherlands in The Magicians, so it was a big surprise for me that they store it in bodies called Histories- not the person’s actual body, but like a life-size replica that is pretty much the same body but not. The Archived has an interesting take on the afterlife, with a person’s memories being stored for archival purposes, and Mackenzie is like one of the guardian of the place. Warnings: mention of automobile accident, death of family member and grief, physical violence and injury
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 may crumble and fall. And yet, someone is deliberately altering Histories, erasing essential chapters. In the Archive, the dead must never be disturbed. 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, 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. 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 only Librarians can read.
0 kommentar(er)
