I’m not sure what I was expecting from this book, but it wasn’t what I got. More than anything this is a look at mental health. Cel (Celeste) suffers from depression so deep she can not keep a job. But in order to survive in this world you have to work. How ever she is stuck in dead end jobs because she has no education beyond high school. It’s a good luck moment when she gets a job as an archivist in a local museum. However this museum is haunted and strange things happen. It’s even worse because Celeste has to live on site and do her work in the evening, instead of when the museum is open. It is her duty to help put the restless spirit to sleep.

It’s an interesting story, and overall I like it. However, as an overtrained and over educated librarian, I feel archivist and librarian are thrown around too much. I used not to feel this way, but our modern climate devalues the education of a true librarian and archivist. Celeste is just scanning pictures into a database. A simple enough job. And since this book seems loosely based on a person real life, I hate to say that I disagree with it, but I do. If we let the stereotype exist that archivist and librarians do not need an education, then the public will start asking those questions. We have enough schools, libraries, and museums losing qualified staff because of budget cuts, that I just don’t care for a book that makes it seems like our jobs can be done by anyone. There is a lot more to an archivists job than scanning pictures. It seems a weird reason to not like a book, but that is my main reason.