Advanced Reader’s Copy provided by NetGalley and Macmillan Audio in exchange for an honest review.

Overall I'm having a really hard time rating this series. There are a lot of things that I'm enjoying, and there are other things that I feel just don't work which keep me from loving it.

I enjoy Ropa's wit and snark (though it is constant which gets old after a time). But it's REALLY hard to believe she's only in her mid-teens (she's 14-years-old in the first book). Ropa and her friends read much older and it's jarring to force yourself to remember how young they actually are. This series is also full of pop culture references, some work, others don't, and others feel forced. But it makes me wonder how this series will age, it also makes it harder to fit this series into a specific period of time.

I loved that readers learned more about Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments this time around, along with seeing more of the Library of the Dead and some of the magical schools in Edinburgh. The mystery that Ropa and her friends need to solve in this second book in the Edinburgh Nights series was interesting and built upon the events that happened in the first book.

Macmillan went with a different audiobook narrator this time, which I always find awkward when it's not the same voice narrating the same character throughout the series. Kimberly Mandindo does a good job, but I was hoping that Tinashe Warikandwa would be back for this one.