Many, many thanks to NetGalley, Avon, and Voyager for providing me with the ARC in exchange for my objective review. However, I'm not very objective about Jenny Colgan as she's one of my favorite authors!

What a wonderful story! I really loved it! It had all the elements that I love about Jenny Colgan's writing:
- Great main and supporting characters
- Snarky dialogue
- Heartwarming love story
- Healing family dynamics
- Quirky animals including a chicken and a goat
- HEA

This is a sequel to "The Summer Skies". It can definitely be read as a "stand alone" but reading Book 1 first enhanced the experience as some of the same characters played supporting roles in this story.. Also, as a small bonus, the island of Mure and some of it's characters were mentioned. As this is my favorite series by this author, that was a nice touch.

There was a smattering of f-bombs but, like many of Colgan's more recent books, somewhat appropriate based on the two characters who were swearing. Definitely not as bad as Coltan in the "Mure" books, thank goodness! Also, Colgan has moved away from explicit love scenes which I find to be a big positive as well. She does tend to insert some mildly political beliefs that I'm not in agreement with but I just skim over them as they're not too "in your face" and don't detract from the overall story.

Overall a great read and I will definitely be buying the final version of this in ebook and audiobook format.

I am glad I got to read this novel thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and of course Jenny Colgan. I was pleasantly surprised to be returning to the same location and some of the characters from her previous book Summer Skies. It’s not a sequel but I was glad I had background on those characters. The author does it again and writes a beautiful story in a beautiful location with humor, love and and a scary situation. Looking forward to more in this possible series.

I always look forward to a new Jenny Colgan book but gave up on Close Knit after 15 chapters. While Colgan’s style of separating the main characters into individual chapters is usually seamless it does not work in this book. And the daydream reveries of Gertie make it even more disjointed. What could be conveyed in a short paragraph drags on far too long.