Apparently, Walla Walla is a real city, not just a thing Jason Derulo sings. 

This book feels like a first draft. A combination of NINTH HOUSE and THE SECRET HISTORY on a very tight budget, and it doesn't make any sense. 

Ann has the main character syndrome, she knows several languages, she is unique, the only student of a department, and she is so unfortunate. 

If she was a specialist in Early Renaissance, she could've easily applied to a PhD. programme in Europe, more affordable than the US, with all the scholarships and grants and not a problem for someone who knows 7 languages? (How is that even possible) And she could've studied it "on site." 
She is annoying as someone about 23-24? Really immature and an unreliable narrator. And the usage of memorising details. New rooms? She memorise them. New surroundings? She absorbs every detail. Why would you specify this on paper? 

The writing style was way too simple for this type of work. 
The addiction of American authors for that flawed first point of view is getting out of control and is really getting on my nerves. 
Also the drop of some foreign words to create the illusion of a more pretentious work. 
But Ann...(who names their kid like that?) I've never been so annoyed with a character. Trying  to downplay herself, to hide, while she is a planner, an opportunist that made a place for herself. 

Rachel is the stereotypical American. It makes me laugh. The ideal young rich American that everybody loves put in this story just to make the differences more striking and to make Ann more relatable? lovable? who knows.

Everyone in this book has a dirty secret or more, and the moral compass is inexistent, with a spark of corruption and abuse. Ambitious people trying to make a name, dark academia core. It's twisted and cheap, getting away with murder. A Teen drama, Riverdale, but in a fancy museum. 

Can the actual Cloisteres Museum sue the book for defamation?