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A review by thehonestpuck
Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Wasp is an Archivist, tasked with hunting ghosts for scraps of clues about the pre-apocalyptic past and forced to defend her position in yearly death matches against other girls. Then she meets a ghost who wants a favor from her: to help him find his close friend in the ghost world. Archivist Wasp (and its sequel Latchkey) is an incredible story about friendship, self-discovery, and learning the history of a broken world. There is remarkably complete worldbuilding laid out in relatively sparse details, fully fleshed out characters and character relationships, and a beautiful foregrounding of intense platonic relationships (that in the sequel includes larger community-building).
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Medical trauma