How can I possibly discuss this without giving away the entire plot? How can I gush over the intricacy of prose and setting, when I don't want to spoil anything? Trust me, there are more than enough "I don't believe we're going there" moments to fill up all remaining 19,000 characters I have for this review. But I'll spare you. 
 Wasp is an Archivist, like the generations of Archivists before her, a role mostly shunned by society but necessary. For she hunts ghosts--she catches them, researches them, and then sends them into the afterworld where they belong. And all the while she's trying not to get killed by would-be Archivists, the girls trained to do just that who strive for her position. 
 The whole thing sucks a little, because she hates her job. 
 But then she encounters a ghost unlike any other. She knows it's different, but goes after it anyway, and that's the point where I stop talking because you've got to see it for yourself. 
 Wasp is the female protag we all want. She's tough and sassy, a little too hardheaded at times, but also recognizes her own weaknesses. But she doesn't let that weakness get to her--she knows her limits, and she tries pushing them. There are times she oversteps her bounds, and she knows it, and sometimes she listens to her conscious. Sometimes she doesn't. We all know how that is. 
 One little quasi-spoiler gushing: (view spoiler)[The Archivists have a tradition that when they defeat an upstart, a portion of their hair is woven into hers. So Wasp has this massive head of hair (which has got to heavy, and I sympathize) because she's had the role probably longer than any Archivist before her. But my favorite part, which will stay with me forever: When she cuts it off. She's running away and there's little bits of her that know she can go back, and she subconsciously prepares for it, but when she hacks off the hair of those she's defeated? That is the turning point of this book, and that's when I knew all that followed would be nothing to compared to everything I'd already read. (hide spoiler)] 
 And I have to admit, it's really refreshing to read something good that lacks a romantic subplot.