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lattelibrarian 's review for:
The Archived
by V.E. Schwab
Okay, Victoria Schwab, I just read this and the second one, and I am just sitting here PATIENTLY WAITING for the third of this trilogy. I've been doing nothing else since May. Okay, maybe that's a bit of a lie. But it feels like the truth.
This is a series that will absolutely linger with you. And as a librarian with lots of friends in the archives program, this gives me a lot to constantly think about in terms of ethics and morals...as well as how I'm dealing with death in my own personal life. If you had the chance to wake up the representation of your loved one, something completely, totally against the rules, just for the chance of hearing their voice again, seeing their eyes again, watching how they moved again, would you? This is the sort of choice that Mackenzie Bishop goes through each time she convinces an archivist to bend the rules and let her see her brother. And it's a difficult choice, at that.
And then there's the whole conversation where her family is moving on from the death of her brother and her grandfather, learning to live again after being surrounded by death, and then there's Mackenzie who must struggle with being surrounded by the dead at various hours of the day.
Schwab's writing is stunning, heartbreaking, beautiful. Her characters are devastating, hard-willed, convincing. If you're looking for a new series to read, this is it. This is absolutely it.
Review cross-listed here!
This is a series that will absolutely linger with you. And as a librarian with lots of friends in the archives program, this gives me a lot to constantly think about in terms of ethics and morals...as well as how I'm dealing with death in my own personal life. If you had the chance to wake up the representation of your loved one, something completely, totally against the rules, just for the chance of hearing their voice again, seeing their eyes again, watching how they moved again, would you? This is the sort of choice that Mackenzie Bishop goes through each time she convinces an archivist to bend the rules and let her see her brother. And it's a difficult choice, at that.
And then there's the whole conversation where her family is moving on from the death of her brother and her grandfather, learning to live again after being surrounded by death, and then there's Mackenzie who must struggle with being surrounded by the dead at various hours of the day.
Schwab's writing is stunning, heartbreaking, beautiful. Her characters are devastating, hard-willed, convincing. If you're looking for a new series to read, this is it. This is absolutely it.
Review cross-listed here!