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Fintan (with help from his sister Flora) I’d almost ready to open the island’s rambling and disused hotel, the Rock.
BUT Jenny Colgan has changed the back stories of several main characters which I find really frustrating. We are constantly expanding our range of books, social stationery and calendars, with all the leading publishers and suppliers.
If you're looking for sweet, chatty, uplifting and absorbing reads you can't go wrong with Jenny Colgan. Especially when their motley staff includes a temperamental French chef, a spoilt Norwegian kitchen boy who can't peel a potato without mutilating his own hand and a painfully shy kitchen assistant who blushes when anyone speaks to her.
There are a lot of characters to keep track of so it was not only hard to keep track of them, they aren’t very likable. It wasn't just small things, some characters who have been in the entire series now have different first or last names. With Flora's help, Fintan is going to get the hotel up and running in time for Christmas, transforming it into a festive haven of crackling log fires and delicious food. For me, there wasn't the character attachment or emotional investment in the outcome which could have potentially happened if I had read the previous books. Die Story war ganz nett, was mich aber massiv gestört hat, war, dass die Autorin sich offenbar nicht mehr an die Namen ihrer Charaktere erinnern konnte.
But there are some good subplots too - will Dr Saif ever find out whether his long-lost wife is still alive…? New mother Flora MacKenzie and her brother Fintan are working themselves half to death to get it ready in time for Christmas. What on earth moved Colgan to incorporate the highly sensitive topic of refugees and their relationships in a way that felt deeply insensitive and superficial? Jenny Colgan is the author of numerous Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling novels and has won various awards for her writing, including the Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance, the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award and the RNA Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year Award. There is a developing romance between Konstantin, a newcomer from Norway, and Isla, who used to work at the Island Cafe and is now working in the kitchen at the Rock.