The Catchkeep-priest makes sure to tell Wasp that, after he steals some of her food, as he twists yet another psychological knife on her side.īut life goes on, and Wasp has another year before the next round of upstarts will fight her in a deadly match in order to become the next Archivist.

Maybe things will be different this year, she thinks.

This time though, she chose to let the last of the upstarts she fought, live. Why did I read this book: The premise! The cover! And then a few weeks ago, a few trusted folks on Twitter were singing its praises.Īrchivist Wasp has just survived her third annual Archivist-choosing day and her wounds (she is getting slow) are still fresh, but healing. How did I get this book: Review Copy from the Publisher Stand alone or series: Stand alone but there seems to be a sequel in the works. Or so they’ve been told for four hundred years.Īrchivist Wasp fears she is not the chosen one, that she won’t survive the trip to the underworld, that the brutal life she has escaped might be better than where she is going. After all, Archivists are marked from birth to do the holy work of a goddess. She will go with him on his underworld hunt for the long-long ghost of his partner and in exchange she will find out more about his pre-apocalyptic world than any Archivist before her. Desperate and alone, she strikes a bargain with the ghost of a supersoldier.

And every year she has to fight to remain Archivist. Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy, YA, Adventure, Post-Apocalypse/Dystopia

Nicole kornher stace