2.5 Stars
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.
Initial reaction when reading the blurb: Yeah, I sooo want to read this!
Reaction after finishing: mah...
Blurbs are one of the utmost misleading information to be given to a reader. Reading a blurb and thinking it sounds decent is like watching a movie trailer, and thinking the film itself is awesome, primarily based on all the cool visual effects shown in the trailer.
From the rating - it seems as if I enjoyed the Archived. It was entertaining from time to time. The writing was also decent. But as I kept reading along I realized the archive (the main storyline of the whole book) is strikingly stupid.
This book wanted to be original.
This book wanted to be unique.
But it simply wasn’t.
“I didn’t want to accept it, but the fact is, they were people. Copies of people. Because the only way to truly record a person is not in words, not in still frames, but in bone and skin and memory.”
