There wasn't really much of a plot. There were a lot of hard-to-read passages about local history that had nothing to do with the main story. There was a lot of dialogue in dialect that was hard to read. And there were several plot jumps where major points weren't explained and I was left to catch up as best I could. The character of Edie Ochiltree, a licensed beggar as it were, was fun, but otherwise, the characters were pretty one-dimensional.