Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments

Written by T. L. Huchu

Narrated by Kimberly Mandindo

Opening up a world of magic and adventure, Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments by T. L. Huchu is the second audiobook in the Edinburgh Nights series.

Ropa Moyo’s ghostalking practice has tanked. Desperate for money to pay bills and look after her family, she reluctantly accepts a job to look into the history of a coma patient receiving treatment at the magical private hospital Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments. The patient is a teenage schoolboy called Max Wu, and healers at the hospital are baffled by the illness which has confounded medicine and magic.

Ropa’s investigation leads her to the Edinburgh Ordinary School for Boys, one of only the four registered schools for magic in the whole of Scotland (the oldest and only one that remains closed to female students).

But the headmaster there is hiding something and as more students succumb Ropa learns that a long-dormant and malevolent entity has once again taken hold in this world.

She sets off to track the current host for this spirit and try to stop it before other lives are endangered.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Release date: Apr 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9781250840653

T. L. Huchu

T. L. Huchu is a writer whose short fiction has appeared in publications such as Lightspeed, Interzone, Analog Science Fiction and Fact and elsewhere. The Library of the Dead won Best Novel at the Nommo Awards, presented by the African Speculative Fiction Society. And his work has also been short-listed for the Caine Prize and the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire. Between projects, he translates fiction from Shona into English and the reverse. He is the author of the Edinburgh Nights series.

Reviews for Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments

[Billie · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments
by T.L. Huchu
Fantasy Paranormal Dystopia
Scribd audio

Ropa's reputation is in the gutter, and ghosts are no longer coming to her to take messages to their loved ones so now she needs to find another job, or some other way to make some money so to take care of her grandmother and sister. She thought it would be some quick cash digging into a college student's life, so to find out why he was in a coma. Her quest leads her to a school for Boys, the Library of the dead, and a few other places.

This is book two of the Edinburgh Nights series, and it was all over the place. There was so much swearing that it got ridiculous, plus with some adult content, it's not suitable for readers under 16. And the slang, yes, I know it's Scottish, but wow, every other word, and if that didn't make it hard to follow, the narrator's accent is once again thick, and I'm not sure if it's her actual accent, but it sounded so forced that it was monotone, no emotion, nothing. Plus there weren't many detailed descriptions, so overall the story felt flat.

This story is on the low end of ok.

2 Stars