The Unbound (The Archived) [Kindle Edition] Author: Victoria Schwab | Language: English | ISBN:
B00CXXEWZQ | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Download electronic versions of selected books The Unbound Epub Free for everyone book mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link 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. Last summer, Mackenzie Bishop, a Keeper tasked with stopping violent Histories from escaping the Archive, almost lost her life to one. Now, as she starts her junior year at Hyde School, she's struggling to get her life back. But moving on isn't easy -- not when her dreams are haunted by what happened. She knows the past is past, knows it cannot hurt her, but it feels so real, and when her nightmares begin to creep into her waking hours, she starts to wonder if she's really safe. Meanwhile, people are vanishing without a trace,and the only thing they seem to have in common is Mackenzie. She's sure the Archive knows more than they are letting on, but before she can prove it, she becomes the prime suspect. And unless Mac can track down the real culprit, she'll lose everything, not only her role as Keeper, but her memories, and even her life. Can Mackenzie untangle the mystery before she herself unravels? With stunning prose and a captivating mixture of action, romance, and horror, The Unbound delves into a richly imagined world where no choice is easy and love and loss feel like two sides of the same coin. Books with free ebook downloads available The Unbound Epub Free
- File Size: 1310 KB
- Print Length: 368 pages
- Publisher: Disney Hyperion (January 28, 2014)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CXXEWZQ
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,083 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
This review originally appeared on my blog, There Were Books Involved.
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There is something about Victoria Schwab’s Archived series that moves me on so many levels. The Archived and The Unbound are both incredibly, beautifully written, and they effortlessly pull on your emotions. They’re exciting, heart-wrenching, intense, and completely un-put-down-able, and they will give you feels like crazy. They’re just… utterly wonderful.
In this latest installment, Our Heroine, Mackenzie Bishop, is desperately trying to recover from the events that took place at the end of The Archived, but she’s suffering from horrible nightmares about the History she faced. This leads to long periods of time without sleep, which lead to blackouts… and worse. Mackenzie feels like her reality is starting to unravel. Add to that, the fact that people around her are disappearing, and Mac isn’t sure if she’s making connections where there are none, if she’s somehow the causes of these disappearances, of if there’s actually something sinister going on… and that people at the Archive may be responsible.
--- The Worldbuilding ---
Other than the beautiful writing, and the emotions these books evoke from the reader, another major reason I adore this series is because of its world. The world and “mythology” of The Archived and The Unbound are wholly original and extraordinary and believable. The Archive as an institution (“where the dead rest on shelves like books…”) is absolutely fascinating. And we get to see so much more of it in The Unbound. It’s sometimes scary, and oftentimes beautiful, and always fascinating. The mythology of the Archive has a weight to it which is just stunning.
Victoria Schwab is one of those authors whose work somehow catches me by surprise every time. After three books and two short stories — all of which I rated between 4 and 5 stars, and most of which landed on my all-time-favorites list — you’d think I’d have learned what to expect from her by now. Once again, however, The Unbound has exceeded my expectations and left me reeling from (and I don’t say this lightly, because I do not use this phrase. Ever.) ALL THE FEELS.
What I loved about The Archived was the imagination, the world-building, and the storytelling. The whole idea of a person’s History being stored on a shelf in the Archives, maintained by Archive Librarians and Keepers? Brilliant, and fascinating to explore. I was happy to discover that there was much more of this whole concept in The Unbound. In addition, there were new themes, new characters, and new places that all piqued my interest.
I read in a recent interview with Schwab that one of her goals with this book was to explore the idea that “it’s okay to NOT be okay,” and this theme is quite present in The Unbound. In fact, a variation of that line is actually present in the book. Mackenzie has suffered several tragic ordeals, she’s dealing with grief and stress in her everyday life, and she’s got a whole secret life that is also in complete turmoil. Girl’s got s*** staring her down from every angle, and I can relate in a big way. Mackenzie’s choices and actions felt real and believable to me, and I found myself understanding her more than being frustrated with her, which is a big bonus for me, because usually that is not that case!
The best part is that Schwab tackled this subject in such a way that the book felt natural, familiar, and subtle all at once.
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