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A review by ihateprozac
The Unbound by V.E. Schwab
5.0
Following the Coronado rooftop showdown, The Unbound sees Mackenzie dealing with post-traumatic stress and hallucinations about Owen. She’s not sleeping and is struggling to juggle starting at a new school with male attention from a cute new guy, and all the while trying to maintain her studies, sanity, and Returns list. This is only complicated when people suddenly start disappearing left and right - people for whom Mackenzie was the last person they saw. It then becomes a race against the clock to figure out what’s happening before The Archive take Mackenzie out of action.
I lowkey thought I was going to hate myself for reading this. The masochist in me wanted to know what happens in The Unbound, even if we never get a third book in the series. I knew emotional devastation was highly likely, and yet my masochistic ass wanted to do it anyway.
……….And I’m glad I did because I was pleasantly surprised!
Victoria Schwab manages to round off this book with the perfect amount of closure: she leaves it open for more adventures with The Archive, and yet she wonderfully ties up Mackenzie and Wesley’s loose ends such that if we never get any more Archive stories, us readers will be just fine. There are no cliffhangers, no gaping plot holes, no unanswered questions boring holes into my soul. If it forever remains a duology, it’s totally fine, and yet the doors to the Archive aren’t totally boarded shut.
The Unbound is such a fun, mysterious, action-packed read that was so atmospheric, I could practically feel Mackenzie’s stress and exhaustion in my soul. I forget how much I adore Victoria Schwab’s YA writing until I’m in the moment reading it - it’s so slick and I absolutely fly through it.
I won’t say more as I don’t want to spoil the novel, but if we never get another one, I’m honestly so happy with how this series finished. We got another solid adventure with Mackenzie and Wesley and we learned even more about the mysterious inner workings of the Archive. I enjoyed every minute and am so in love with this world. To bastardise a quote, "When it's right, it's right."
I lowkey thought I was going to hate myself for reading this. The masochist in me wanted to know what happens in The Unbound, even if we never get a third book in the series. I knew emotional devastation was highly likely, and yet my masochistic ass wanted to do it anyway.
……….And I’m glad I did because I was pleasantly surprised!
Victoria Schwab manages to round off this book with the perfect amount of closure: she leaves it open for more adventures with The Archive, and yet she wonderfully ties up Mackenzie and Wesley’s loose ends such that if we never get any more Archive stories, us readers will be just fine. There are no cliffhangers, no gaping plot holes, no unanswered questions boring holes into my soul. If it forever remains a duology, it’s totally fine, and yet the doors to the Archive aren’t totally boarded shut.
The Unbound is such a fun, mysterious, action-packed read that was so atmospheric, I could practically feel Mackenzie’s stress and exhaustion in my soul. I forget how much I adore Victoria Schwab’s YA writing until I’m in the moment reading it - it’s so slick and I absolutely fly through it.
I won’t say more as I don’t want to spoil the novel, but if we never get another one, I’m honestly so happy with how this series finished. We got another solid adventure with Mackenzie and Wesley and we learned even more about the mysterious inner workings of the Archive. I enjoyed every minute and am so in love with this world. To bastardise a quote, "When it's right, it's right."