So excited to visit Flora and the gang again. I adore this series and look forward to each new book. This time around Fintan is trying to cope with opening the hotel of Colton's dreams. We meet a cranky chef and a young man of means who was financially cut off from his family. As always a humorous, heartfelt look at small town life. Another hit!

Love this series, the setting and the characters. Charming as always as The Rock opens and more characters come to the island of Mure on the remote coast of Scotland.

The sweetness that typically saturates Jenny Colgan’s books settles over this new chapter in the lives of the Island residents. This time, we find Fintan mourning Colton’s death while Flora and Joel adjust to a new baby in their lives. While our Island regulars struggle with the changes in their lives, new character Konstantin is dropped in the middle of opening a new glam hotel at Christmas. Banished to the island by his wealthy father, Konstantin becomes the prime character here as he learns the value of hard work and joy of love, giving, and friendship.

Romance fans and fans of the Colgan books will thoroughly enjoy this new peek into life on a Scottish island. A joyful escape from reality....

Jenny Colgan has done it again with the Christmas book to read this year. Christmas at the Island Hotel is a magical book for a magical time. The characters Jenny creates come to life on the pages and you want to be there and be friends with almost every one of them.

This was a fun follow-up to the original book, though I didn't realize it when I picked it to read. If you loved the cast in the first story they are all here plus a handful of new oddball characters that the story essentially revolves around starting about one third in. As with the previous book, there are those of us who'd love to visit or live on a remote Scottish island where the world that revolves around
"likes" and "shares" and trendy-ness have very little meaning or bearing on everyday life in a village in the middle of the ocean. Of course, there's still love and heartache, work and careers, family and community to bind people together in a sweet story. Definitely a nice read for a world that's gone a bit mad.

Another sweet tale from Jenny Colgan about life on Mure Island and the people who live there. Flora is helping her brother open up a new Hotel left to him after the death of his husband. Various people pitch in to help. A new and volatile but talented chef arrives as does an exiled prince hiding his identity. Complications and love ensue and all is well that ends well. Overall a fun read but it seemed a little rushed and without much substance.

Jenny Colgan is the sugary sweet author we all need right now. Christmas brings out her best work and I’m here for it! So grateful for this review copy, the book will be a huge hit for us.

What fun! A few laugh-out-loud moments, a few must-be-something-in-my-eye moments. I was hoping for another installment of this collection of characters on the island that is practically a character too. We get updates on some characters while others get a stronger voice. Enjoyable light reading, but not frivolous. Cheaper than a vacation but as refreshing.