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The Archived by V.E. Schwab

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vicky30312's review

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5.0

This story is really well planned out. And its not like anything I've read before. I loved it.

adelle_bookworm's review against another edition

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4.0

Tak já nevím... bylo to divný, to jo, a spousta věcí prostě nebyla dostatečně vysvětlená a opodstatněná, ale ok. Konec se dal.
...a hlavně poslední věta autorčina poděkování mě dostala :D

stuckinafictionaluniverse's review against another edition

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4.0

A very well written murder mystery. The only thing I didn't like was the uneven pacing; for the majority of the book the pacing is somewhere between slow and steady, unlike the ending where I felt that it was rushing to wrap things up nicely.

acarlson0487's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

uruseibaka's review against another edition

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5.0

THIS. IS. SO. AMAZING. I now understand the people who praise Victoria/V.E. Schwab for her books. This is my first Schwab book but she’s already a favorite author to me! I can tell I’ll enjoy her other books because she just has this charm in her writing. Ya feel me?

The way Victoria reimagined the ghost/death (or whatever you call it) world is so dark and awesome.

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harleyrae's review against another edition

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3.0

I'm not gonna lie, I was very disappointed in this book. I was so excited when I got this book, I had heard many amazing things about it. I thought it sounded interesting and I had been waiting forever to read it. Sadly i didn't enjoy it at all.

First off I couldn't get past the characters. I just couldn't connect with Mackenzie so that made it unenjoyable. I did like Wesly, I found him charming and funny. I wasn't a fan of the flashbacks, I felt they had no standing in the book, and that it as difficult to figure out who was talking in those sections.

Now I found the idea of the story to be quite interesting, but the book I got from when i read what it's about is completely different than the book i really got. I found this to be slow paced with not much going on. It wasn't until the last 50 pages that it seemed to start speed up. And who the bad guy turned out to be I had guess it was said person 200 pages ago. I didn't like some of the decisions Mac made, I felt some of this stuff would have been resolved a lot sooner if she had told someone, or even dug a little deeper on what exactly is going on.

All in all I was disappointed with the turn out of the book. It had a few good qualities, but many bad.