Waiting on Wednesday (January 16)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine where we post upcoming releases we're highly anticipating. My pre-publication selection for this week's Waiting on Wednesday is The Archived by Victoria Schwab.

  The Archived

Victoria Schwab

Series: The Archived, #1

Release Date: January 22nd, 2013

Publisher: Hyperion

Number of Pages: 336

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 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 hard-won redemption.

I've been dying to read this one for quite a while (actually, I'm surprised I haven't used it as my WoW pick before now!) - the concept is absolutely awesome, the reviews have been great so far, and the author has a LOT of hype behind her. Luckily there's not too long of a wait for this book's release date, because I don't know if I'd be able to wait much longer to read this one! 

What are you waiting on?

 Let me know in the comments!