The fictional Finfarran peninsula in Ireland is where many of the emigrants in Resolve, USA came from. Cassie lives in Finfarran and visits Resolve; she finds that the people of Resolve have lost their Irish roots.

Upon her return, Cassie approaches Finfarran librarian Hanna Casey. They decide to create a Skype-based book club between the Finfarran library and the US town of Resolve.

I will admit I haven't read the entire series because I didn't enjoy the first book. This entry in the series is another rambling tale that's hard to follow if you're not devoting all of your attention to the story. Marcella Riordan's Irish accents make the book even harder to follow for an American reader.

Only recommended if you love small-town or Irish country fiction.

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.

This title is book 5 in the series, I didn't know that going in, so meh. It wasn't a book that I loved, so it was a DNF from me, but maybe if I was invested in the series from the beginning I would have felt differently. I can't say!
Thanks for the free NetGalley ARC.

This book (and series) is just not for me. I didn't realize this title was part of an existing series but I had previously read the first book. I loved the premise of this book - a book club stretching across miles and using video chat. It seemed really relevant in this covid era. However, I just didn't connect with the characters. There were too many to keep track of and I felt most were fairly flat. Every book has its reader though, and it is well written so I'm sure some will enjoy this book. As a librarian I guess I just don't like reading about libraries, oddly enough!

I loved the author's first book. Sadly, I had to give up on this one. I got about a third of the way through and was still confused as to characters and the plot. I didn't find it easy to keep characters straight and the plot seemed to jump around too much. Maybe I will pick it up again at a later date.

A lovely women's fiction read from a new-to-me author, THE TRANSATLANTIC BOOK CLUB is a wonderful read in the time of skype calls. A virtual book club digs up secrets, creates new friendships, and is a charming tale from start to finish.

I really enjoyed the first 3 books in this series, so I was excited to be given the chance to read this one. Unfortunately, this one was a disappointment for me. An important character from the previous two books wasn't even mentioned, and an American town was also featured, which I hadn't expected. I don't usually get over halfway into a book and put it down, but I did that with this one.

Felicity Hayes-McCoy has created a wonderful community, full of relatable characters living on a fictional Irish peninsula called Finfarran. Cassie Fitzgerald grew up in Toronto, Canada, but her father and his brother were raised with their older brother Frankie in Finfarran. Cassie reconnects with her Irish roots and especially her Grandmother Pat. When her grandfather Ger dies from heart failure, Cassie takes Pat to Resolve, a town in the U.S. that many from Finfarran immigrated to, and where Pat lived and work the summer before she married Ger. It does Pat a lot of good to reconnect and remember her youth, so when Cassie and Pat return to Ireland Cassie comes up with the idea of a Transatlantic Book Club to help Pat stay in touch with all her old friends. The book club is made possible by modern technology, allowing old friends and families to reconnect. More than anything this book club illustrates the power of family relationships. Some powerful personalities live in Finfarran, especially Pat's best friend Mary Casey. Mary is a dominating and opinionated personality, but she and Pat completely understand each other and are true friends.

An unintended consequence of the book club is the digging up of old resentments and scandals. Reading about the too human interactions of the various book club members was great fun. Doesn't every small town have these stereotypical, but realistic, personalities like Darina (the older mother who can't or won't discipline her young children), Fury (the village handy-man and a keen observer leading many to think he might be a wizard) along with his sidekick dog Divil (a keen judge of character like all dogs)? All this plays out in the stunningly described Finfarran, a peninsula on the west coast of Ireland. The landscape becomes another character, and it has shaped generations of inhabitants with it's beauty and challenges, compelling some to leave and immigrate. This book is the newest installment in the Finfarran series and the first I've read. I need to read the earlier books in the series to visit all the new (fictional) friends I've made. Thank you NetGalley for the ARC.

First I would like to thank NetGalley for the eArc in exchange for a fair and honest review

Did I know this was a series? No. Would that have helped? Most definitely!
As I read this, I felt like all of the characters were only half there, that I was missing parts of their story. As a result, I really didn't care for it all that much. I was expecting a book about a Transatlantic Book Club. Instead, I got some information about the families in both areas, a story from the past, and very little book club. I wanted reactions to books based on the different cultures. I got a romance and I got family drama. And I got nothing resolved in the end.

It wasn't until I was done reading that I discovered that I could learn more about Finfarren reading all of the other books! And, let's not forget the confusion between Finfarren and Lissberg, I being the name of the penninsula and the other the name of the town. Which, again, was not made clear because I hadn't read all of the other books.

It may be a fine series, but it is surely not a book that you can just pick up and read as a stand alone.

I liked this book probably slightly better than the first in the series but these can absolutely be read as stand-alones. I am interested now in going back and reading the interceding books, which I didn't even know existed until I started this one and saw the list on GR. This book made me want to travel to Ireland as did the first in the series but I felt even more a sense of place and loved the characters in this book than the first.

The Transatlantic Book Club comes out next week on November 10, 2020 and you can purchase HERE. You can read my review of the first book in the series HERE.

Pat Fitz had a wedding dress of ivory-coloured poplin with a fitted bodice, a gored skirt, and a stiff net petticoat. She'd made it on a sewing machine bought with the savings from the summer she'd spent in the States the year she left school. There was a lace inset at the neckline but otherwise the dress was plain, except for the row of pearl buttons down the back. Her veil was sheer nylon, anchored by a band of artificial roses she'd bought in a place called Blanche's Bridal Bower, and brought home in her hand luggage wrapped in layers of tissue paper.

Another fun read from Hayes-McCoy in the Finrannan series.

A small village in Ireland filled with warm, funny believable characters is again the setting for this novel. This time the story centers around Cassie who is helping her grandmother after the death of her grandfather. Funny, sad, sassy and warm, the characters become friends. The descriptions of the area are wonderful and the reader can truly imagine the scenery. The various personalities ring true and are not so perfect as to be unrealistic. For fans of Ireland and Irish speakers, this is a great series.

I did not realize that this was part of a series, not that this made any difference at all to my enjoyment of the book. I loved the Irish setting and became very fond of the characters. I will most definitely seek out the other (earlier) titles in the series, not because I feel like I need to 'catch up', but because I want to spend more time with these people.

I know many readers will welcome The Transatlantic Book Club. I sound the characters engaging and real. The book has an interesting plot and enough action to sustain interest. A good addition to an already popular literary trend, I will look forward to recommending this book.

First off, the Irish setting gives me so much wanderlust and the bookish storyline makes me happy! In this multicultural Irish family fictional story, it follows communities across a small Irish town to an American town of Irish immigrants. It starts with Cassie who moves back to Ireland with her grandma after her grandfather passes away, and soon after that, the duo heads to this small US town where gran pat had once visited her cousin as a teen. Once back in Ireland, Cassie takes a part-time job at the local library, which like, yay I love bookish themes. Immediately, there are several narrators between Cassie, pat, librarian Hannah and her mom Mary, which can be a bit difficult to discern who's who with so much happening all at once. It's very ambitious in that way. In the beginning, several chapters are purely exposition and intros, and it's very slow to get into the main story. Cassie sets up a transatlantic book club for the towns of Lissberg and Resolve, where they'll chat weekly at one time via Skype. This book features so much descriptive language that plays out like a movie in my head, but having too many points of view is making things difficult to keep track of, along with barely any transition between flashbacks. That feels abrupt and confusing as a reader. However, something clearly happened in the past and I'm very curious to find out what, There's not a ton of action throughout and it wasn't easy to get into. I wanted to love it so badly, however, I just couldn't get into it unfortunately.

Thank you to netgalley for the ARC of this title. I certainly enjoyed the setting and characters--lovely Irish village and a caring community. It felt a little slow in the middle and I wished there might have been more of the book club but I did like how the book club was used to connect the Resolve community with the Irish one. The author has a keen eye for details that brought the story to life.

The Transatlantic Book Club by Felicity Hayes-McCoy is a story, following previous ones she has published, about the people of Finfarran Pennisula in Ireland. It took me a while to "get to know" the characters that readers who are familiar with Hayes-McCoy's work already know. Other than that, this book is ok as a stand-alone. The story is interesting and draws the reader in. After reading this one, I definitely plan to go back and read the others.

If you read Felicity Hayes-MCoy’s earlier books in this series, then you will enjoy this new one. We are introduced to new characters that won’t disappoint. The residents of the little town of Ireland’s Finfarran Peninsula set up a virtual book club through Skype with the US town of Resolve. The decision is to read a detective novel which instead of bring folks together, brings up secrets, old love affairs and much more. Can being part of this book club repair lives and have a happy ending for its members? You won’t be disappointed.

This was a fun return to Finfarran. I enjoyed the characters, as usual. I didn't necessarily love the ending, but that is more a personal preference. I want to know more about what happens in widowhood for our older characters. Pat is a great character, really easy to relate to.

I was so excited to return to Finfarran! The latest installment sees Cassie working for the library and exploring feelings for a young man she met during her trip to the US with her gran, Pat. Pat continues to grieve her husband and discovers something unpleasant about her eldest son. We also get a glimpse into Pat's past, which deepened her characterization. I hope Hayes-McCoy continues this series!

I reallg enjoyed this story about family, friendship and emigrate communities connect with their birth communities. Full of vivid characters, including the two towns, this was a beautiful story. I expected a light read, and this was an easy and fast read, but most thoughtful that expectex.