In fact, this effect is worked so well I was put on edge. The settings themselves add to this feeling – a run down hotel turned into housing, the Narrows (grey corridors where Mac hunts down the escaping dead) and the Archive (the library of the dead). This book has a haunting, uneasy air that perfectly suits a world where the dead rest on shelves and those that have to escape are hunted down. 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.
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