Ropa is such a strong heroine. She faces so much adversity and just keeps going. This fourth book has enough going on that even the short battle scenes are not boring.

Holy cliff hangers! This book stopped right in the middle of all the action. I cannot wait for the next title.

This was another great addition to this series. Salty, resourceful Ropa is again bungling her way through life making hasty decisions in the interest of earning money and is usually at least a little bit on the wrong side of the law. The diversity of the characters in this series doesn’t have that performative feel that so many books do nowadays and has an intensely Scottish dialect that is heavy on the slang that makes this series’s unique. The world building is very thorough and complex and I appreciated that it didn’t have the lecture-y feel the third book had.

You would not need to read the third book to understand this one, but definitely either the first or second or you would be lost.

Fantastic audio narration! I really love this narrator.

Ropa Moya is back again, and our favorite self-taught girl genius from the slums is here to save the day!

Seriously, these books do not disappoint. We have tons of action, magic, political intrigue, philosophy, religion, history, it's all there.
Ropa is dealing with her anxiety and panic attacks through therapy, she has left Scottish magic for Brittish, but then she gets the shock of her life - her grandma is murdered, she is blamed, and while she is on the run she learns the truth about some of her families past.
This book ends on quite the cliffhanger, so I am already eagerly looking forward to book 5.
Thank you for the ARC!!

I really didn’t know how to rate this one so I went right down the middle. Why? Because I listened to the audiobook and there were major problems.

I am thankful to have gotten an audio ALC for free from Netgalley and Macmillan Audio) to enjoy which gave me the opportunity to voluntarily leave a review.

If I was just rating the audio book I would have had to give it 1⭐️ unfortunately.
The narrator recited the book in almost a monotone voice and Was not engaging at all. It made is really hard to pay attention to the prose. Usually I can at least look past a bad narration. But it was impossible with this.

I won’t comment on the book as while I listened to the whole thing I can’t may an opinion as I would be too harsh on it

My rating system since GoodReads doesn’t have partial stars and I rarely round up.

⭐️ Hated it
⭐️⭐️ Had a lot of trouble, prose issues, really not my cup of tea (potentially DNF’d or thought about it)
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Meh, it was an ok read but nothing special
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Really enjoyed it! Would recommend to others
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Outstanding! Will circle back and read again

I received a free audiobook copy from NetGalley in exchange for a fair review.

This is book four in the Edinburgh Nights series, set in a near-future Scotland, where magic and ghosts are commonplace and Scotland is deeply divided between the haves and the have nots. So not too unbelievable. Ropa Moyo experiences such tragedy in this book, and the ending... WTF how am I going to be able to wait for the next one? Put me in cryo-sleep until it's released, ok?

Ropa is an incredibly well written character, and having been reading this series from the beginning, you really feel her highs and lows. She suffers so much loss in this book and you feel every ounce of the pain she feels. It has a heart that is sometimes missing from dystopian-type novels, and I heartily encourage you to read the series from the beginning. It's absolutely worth your time.

Seriously. Cryo-sleep me. K?

Such a good addition to the series. This one expanded so much on the world of Ropa and the Scottish magic community. There were betrayals, death and huge revelations. I loved learning more about Ropa's grandmother and her place in the magical world. And of course there is a huge cliffhanger at the end!

In the fourth Edinburgh Nights book, Ropa Moyo has left her position with Sir Callender and thrown herself in with the English sorcerers. When she's framed for a crime she did not commit, she finds almost all of her former friends and allies have abandoned her and she must find out who has framed her and bring them to justice before she is caught or worse.

I've enjoyed watching Ropa grow as a character throughout this series and become more proficient with her magic. I was happy to see some of the loose ends from the previous books come together in this central plot and for Ropa to learn more about her world and her own history. There are still many question marks after this book though and I hope a fifth book will be coming soon!

Kimberly Mandindo is the perfect narrator for this series and makes the listening experience so much fun and feel so authentic to the underbelly of a dystopian Edinburgh.