Archival Quality

Archival Quality

2018 • 280 pages

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15

I just had a really hard time suspending my disbelief over the basic premise of “these medical archives will hire a college dropout as an archivist and we provide an on-site apartment for you to live in and you can only digitize things at NIGHT because those are just the hours okay!” Like...yeah sure that's the setup for a haunted house story or whatever but I feel like the author could have tried a little harder to make that setup make...sense?

and then with the reveal that the museum board was selling old bodies/samples/whatever from former patrons who died in care of the old hospital...like sure yes horrifying but also WHAT WAS ANYONE DOING WITH THOSE? would have loved a panel or something for like...idk were goth kids buying them for decor or what.Like I get the CORE of it, that the patients who died from horrible medical care/experiments would haunt this old archives, looking for their stories to be told etc..and I think that's a GOOD idea for a story...but then all these extra trappings around it just don't make sense to me and also don't seem necessary??

That said....the artwork is cute and I appreciate the diverse cast and, I guess I appreciate the inclusion of a clinically depressed main character (although I didn't feel like her whole arc was very fleshed out the way it COULD have been)? But rly would only recommend to diehard fans of haunted house type stories.

January 1, 2019Report this review