First of all, this book makes me dream of what summers must be like in Ireland. I am logging it for the June mystery challenge because of the wedding theme and the vast availability of flowers and gentle (well mostly gentle) thunderstorms.
Second of all, I love how Carlene O'Connor develops her characters and her mysteries. She is SO SO good at this. I love Soibhan and Macdara and the village of Kilbane. The family and friendships draw the neighbors together and weave such a beautiful picture of belonging.
The one aspect of her writing that gives me pause is the overuse of language. Thankfully the curse words uttered are mostly written in Irish (well Irish transliterated into English) so it is easy to gloss over them (and the narrator does a SPECTACULAR job narrating the book)..
But still.
She is a strong enough writer to be able to tell a story without those utterances.
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