Latchkey

Name: Latchkey
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Nicole Kornher-Stace
ISBN: 9781666155068

Author: Nicole Kornher-Stace

Series: Archivist Wasp Saga #2

Narrator: Raquel Beattie

Unabridged: 14 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/15/2022

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopian

Synopsis

Isabel, once known as Wasp, has become leader of the fearsome upstarts, the teen girl acolytes who are adjusting to a new way of life after the overthrow of the sadistic Catchkeep-priest. They live in an uneasy alliance with the town of Sweetwater—an alliance that will be tested to its limits by the dual threats of ruthless raiders from the Waste and a deadly force from the Before-time that awaits in long-hidden tunnels.

Years ago Isabel befriended a nameless ghost, a supersoldier from the Before-time with incredible powers even after death, and their adventure together in the underworld gave her the strength and knowledge to change the brutal existence of the Catchkeep acolytes for the better. To save Sweetwater, Isabel will have to unlock the secrets of the twisted experimental program from centuries gone by that created the supersoldier and killed his friends: the Latchkey Project.

Latchkey continues the story begun in Kornher-Stace's widely acclaimed Archivist Wasp, an Andre Norton Award finalist that was selected by Kirkus Reviews as one of the Best Teen Books of 2015.

About Nicole Kornher-Stace

Nicole Kornher-Stace is the author of the Norton Award finalist Archivist Wasp and its sequel, Latchkey, which are about a post-apocalyptic ghost hunter, the ghost of a near-future supersoldier, and their adventures in the underworld. She has two more books due out in 2021: the sci-fi thriller Firebreak, and of course, Jillian Vs. Parasite Planet. You can find Nicole on Twitter, where she is probably semi-coherently yelling about board games, video games, hiking, aromantic representation, good books she's read recently, or her cat. She lives in New Paltz, New York, with her family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Justine on June 18, 2018

Archivist Wasp was one of my favourite books of 2015, so I was pretty excited to read Latchkey. I thought that the first book was complete as it was, but I was happy for more. I was worried that I might have forgotten some of the details, but Latchkey covers most of the main points and leads the read......more

Goodreads review by Suzanne on September 24, 2018

From the first ten pages I was hooked. Isabel is such a believable and wonderful character, and thanks to the author's incredible writing talent I really felt that Isabel was wrung out and damaged from the events of the first book, and I was continuosly amazed by her grit and willpower. In this book......more

Goodreads review by Erin on January 15, 2019

"I thought you were smarter than that"......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on July 20, 2018

Have you read Archivist Wasp? If you haven’t, you really should. It’s a striking, post-apocalyptic, ghost-hunting body novel that tells a deeply intense story without even a hint of romance. Latchkey is a follow-up, taking place three years later. I strongly suggest reading Archivist Wasp first, and......more

Goodreads review by Lukasz on April 11, 2018

Actual rating: 3.5/5 The Latchkey continues the story began in Archivist Wasp. Isabel, once known as Wasp, has become the leader of the upstarts. Adjustment to a new way of life isn't easy, especially that Sweetwater inhabitants have mixed feeling about whole archivists and ghosts business. When ruth......more