Waiting on Wednesday
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The Archived by Victoria Schwab looks amazingtastic! First I was drawn in by the title – it makes me think of books. Then that key on the cover (am I the only one who has a huge thing for skeleton keys?) It makes me think creeptasticness is in store for me if I read it. After I read the synopsis that TOTALLY seals the deal. Added to my wish list – check, check and double check! I LOVE books about books and this sounds like a twist on that, amazingastic, creeptastic and wonderful in general! 
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 that 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 hardwon redemption.
Coming out on January 22, 2013 by Hyperion
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What are book are you waiting this wednesday for?
