The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle is the third book in the Edinburgh Nights series, an urban fantasy series set in Scotland. The main character is a 14-year-old ghost talker that wants to hustle her way into a better life. Through books one and two, she was slowly making that happen. 

 

The books are as much mystery as they are urban fantasy as our main character works as a detective solving paranormal crimes that she usually finds herself directly involved in. While the MC may be young, the books themselves are adult fiction. 

 

The books are told in first person, with the narrator having a Scottish accent that is written into the page. It may take some getting used to but isn’t overwhelming, usually. However, I found this book to have an abundance of runaway internal monologue and incomplete sentences. I listened to the first two books via audiobook and read this one, it may be that I prefer this series via audiobook, or it could be the book itself. 

 

The plot for this third book was also slower. The big event is a theft of a magical object, and I just wasn’t connected to the object to really care about it. There was no larger diabolical theme, and yet the theft and not even the greater crime was the intention. Honestly, it was a boring plot that needed a bit more. There was so much cut away about the history of Scotland and of these two imagined clans, much of it repeated multiple times that it felt like a third-book slump. I still love the series, but this one was not a winner for me.