This was my pick for the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge - Indie Press Book. This is not a book I would have picked up on my own without the challenge, so that makes me happy I completed it!

Archivist Wasp thinks she is special. She killed the last Archivist and assumed the ceremonial knife and the duty of recording the memories and details of the various ghosts she captures. She knows one day she will be killed by one of the Upstarts waiting in the wings. She and her fellow villagers live a harsh life, and they wish to know more about the past and when things changed. Wasp is not a rule follower; she is often in trouble and fears for her life daily. One particularly cruel day, she encounters a ghost different than any she has ever seen before, who asks her for a favor. With nothing to lose, Wasp leaves behind the physical world and journey's with the ghost of a super soldier.

This book is so strange. I had trouble getting invested in the story as it is often slow and doesn't always fully explore the odd world Kornher-Stace has built. It is quite poetic, but there is hardly any dialogue. I don't agree with the YA classification of this novel, as I think it would be better placed in the adult Sci-Fi/Fantasy collection. It would take a pretty intrepid teen to take this one on.