I have no idea where Victoria Schwab gets her ideas from but I love how completely different each of her series are from each other. As Mac finds herself having to deal with more and more escaped Histories she starts to question everything she thought she knew about the Archive but she has help from a fellow Keeper to try and figure things out.

It gets really hard to explain her constant disappearing act to her parents but the whole family is already in crisis since the death of her brother and this is just one more way they’re falling apart. Occasionally these Histories wake up and escape from the library and it’s at that point where Keepers, like Mackenzie, are called in to capture them and bring them back to the Archive.īeing a Keeper is a dangerous job and it can be really difficult to juggle its challenges alongside real life, especially as Mac isn’t allowed to tell anyone about the Archive or her role in it. These copies, also known as “Histories”, contain all of your memories and thoughts but they aren’t real people so they are kept unconscious in special drawers a bit like books on a shelf. Imagine a world where after you die a kind of copy of your soul is taken to the Archive to be kept as part of the world history. I'm going to review each of the stories separately but this has been a really fun series to read so it's one I'd definitely recommend trying. The Dark Vault is a bind up that contains all three stories in Victoria Schwab's Archived series together in print for the first time. The Dark Vault (bind up containing all 3 stories in The Archived series) 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. Now her grandfather 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. Mackenzie Bishop’s grandfather first brought her here four years ago, when she was twelve years old, frightened but determined to prove herself.

The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive.

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. The two novels from The Archived Series appearing together for the first time.

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