A review by harleyrae
The Archived by V.E. Schwab

3.0

I'm not gonna lie, I was very disappointed in this book. I was so excited when I got this book, I had heard many amazing things about it. I thought it sounded interesting and I had been waiting forever to read it. Sadly i didn't enjoy it at all.

First off I couldn't get past the characters. I just couldn't connect with Mackenzie so that made it unenjoyable. I did like Wesly, I found him charming and funny. I wasn't a fan of the flashbacks, I felt they had no standing in the book, and that it as difficult to figure out who was talking in those sections.

Now I found the idea of the story to be quite interesting, but the book I got from when i read what it's about is completely different than the book i really got. I found this to be slow paced with not much going on. It wasn't until the last 50 pages that it seemed to start speed up. And who the bad guy turned out to be I had guess it was said person 200 pages ago. I didn't like some of the decisions Mac made, I felt some of this stuff would have been resolved a lot sooner if she had told someone, or even dug a little deeper on what exactly is going on.

All in all I was disappointed with the turn out of the book. It had a few good qualities, but many bad.