Waiting on Wednesday: THE ARCHIVED by Victoria Schwab

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine. This event highlights our most-wanted upcoming releases!

Title: THE ARCHIVED
Author: Victoria Schwab
Release Date: Jan. 22, 2013
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
 

WHY?

I loved Victoria's debut novel THE NEAR WITCH, which was one of my favorite novels of 2011.  Not only did I review it, but I also interviewed the lovely author last year!  I've been following Victoria's blog and chatting with her on Twitter since before her first novel released, and even had the pleasure of meeting her in April!

I've wanted THE ARCHIVED since hearing Victoria first mention it, even knowing so little about it.  I was so excited to see the cover release last week during BEA.  I think the book looks gorgeous and I want it even more now!!! *drools*

SUMMARY: 


Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures that only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive.

Da first brought Mackenzie Bishop here four years ago, when she was twelve years old, frightened but determined to prove herself. 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. 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.

Being a Keeper isn't just dangerous—it's a constant reminder of those Mac has lost. Da's death was hard enough, but now her little brother is gone too. Mac starts to wonder about the boundary between living and dying, sleeping and waking. In the Archive, the dead must never be disturbed. And yet, someone is deliberately altering Histories, erasing essential chapters. Unless Mac can piece together what remains, the Archive itself might crumble and fall.

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.

What are you anxiously waiting for this Wednesday?