Thank you for the opportunity to read this book. Unfortunately, I could not get into it. I won't be posting a review to Goodreads so as not to skew the ratings.

Fun holiday romance but not a standout. I enjoyed the characters and the setting. The pacing felt odd - too fast in some places, in others too slow.

Couldn't get into this book so it's on the DNF shelf. I failed to connect with the characters at all - I found them mostly annoying and didn't really get what was going on.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book. I found this book to be slower passed and hard to connect with. I know others have enjoyed this book but it wasn’t working for me at this time. I DNFed this one partway through and hope to return to it at a later date.

Felicity Hayes-McCoy writes a cute little series about a quaint town in Ireland with the usual types of curmudgeons, ne'er-do-wells, and good-deed-doers. It's fairly formulaic and somewhat prosaic and doesn't do a thing for me. There are so many characters, and even with a revolving point of view, it's hard to keep track of who's who. Eventually, I just gave up caring that I didn't know who belonged where or that their characters didn't evolve much beyond the initial introduction. It's readable but not engrossing.

My kindle said I was halfway through the book and I had yet to figure out what the plot was. I had a hard time with the way characters were introduced and why. It seemed some of them could have been left out and the story might have moved a little more. It was slow and I couldn't see where it was going. The characters were well drawn and you felt like you knew them, but there were too many to decide who you liked and who you didn't.

Readers will enjoy Christmas time in a quaint Irish village filled with traditions as Cassie travels to visit her grandparents. The third in the Finfarran, readers may want to read the first books to learn about about other characters. This was just an okay book for me.

Over all this is an okay book. It was not my favorite read but it was not a horrible read. The story is about Cassie Fitzgerald who travels to Ireland around Christmas time to the village her Dad grew up in and to reconnect with her Grandparents. Cassie makes friends with Hanna a local Librarian and joins up with the book club at the Library. She settles into her new life and is drawn into the mysteries of the town. Like why does her Grandfather treat her Grandmother so badly and why did her father and brother never want to come back to Ireland.

The thing that I loved most about this book was getting to see the traditional Ireland Christmas. I love learning about other cultures so that was a big plus for me..

Like I said this was an okay book. It's not for everyone but I did find it enjoyable.

While the setting is a quaint Irish town before the holidays, this title has a cast of many that can be hard to keep track of. The narrative moves a bit slow. If you like cozy reads that are heavy on what everyone in town is up to, and you're not in a hurry then you'll like the book. Lovely people, sublime setting and of course Christmas!

I love this type of romantic novel. Many of my friends will want to read it, too. Can't wait to share it.

Felicity Hayes-McCoy makes me want to visit Ireland. I was happy to return to Finfarrin and see what what was going on with this little town. I've come to really like these characters and look forward to their continuing stories.

Families. Love them, be frustrated by them, or just go your own way? This new novel is led by an independent spirited young woman who doesn't let her hard charging, make money at all cost family dictate how she lives. She's a bright butterfly in a family of dark birds; she's a hair stylist with a yen for travel, and travel she does. When an opportunity opens to visit the home town of her Irish-American parents, she jumps in with both feet. When she lands, her bubby nature takes over and shakes up the village, brightening up the village. I won't spoil the story by sharing more, but if you like family stories and happy endings, read this charming novel.

I enjoyed returning to this Irish village, seeing it anew through the eyes of Cassie Fitzgerald as she visits her grandparents Ger and Pat. The locals are still here, carrying on with their shops and farms while preparing for the Christmas festival. You'll find an over-zealous event planner, liquor smuggling, tensions over new ideas versus tradition, a new creative writing group at the library, and plenty of tea and biscuits. We can only hope that we'll meet Cassie and the rest of the villagers again after the mistletoe has been taken down!