Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments

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Thank you to Netgalley and Tor publishing for providing an ARC copy of this novel.

I had the same problem with Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments that I did with The Library of the Dead. I seriously could not focus on this book. I think I've targetted the reason though — the voice the book is written is extremely...vulgar? I guess? It's not quite the right word, but I'm not sure how else to put it. These two books are written in Ropa's voice, and she's fifteen in a post-apocalyptic style Scotland. It's written with Scottish slang, and well, it's hard to follow.

The world within the Edinburgh Nights series is still fascinating, but I do wish there had been slightly more revealed in this book. The world — and not just Scotland — seems to have gone through something catastrophic. However, we are given absolutely no hints as to what might have happened. I wish there had been even a tiny clue. Was it climate-related? Was there a war? Why doesn't Ropa talk about it or even think about it more?

The plot of this book was hard to follow — something with banks and an owed inheritance and there's ghosts too? It was all rapped up in the monarchy as well, and I just could not follow it at all. I'm sad to say that I enjoyed this book very little. While I enjoyed some of the characters, most of this book was gibberish to me. I think I'll be skipping the rest of this series.