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The Birthday Party by Roisin Meaney

shellspotted's review

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emotional hopeful relaxing fast-paced

3.0

leona_omahony's review

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5.0

Yet again another wonderful story by Roisin Meaney going back to the people we love from the island of Roone. We are back on this small island with Nell and her family, Laura and her family and others we met in the previous books. I adored this book and was actually sad when it ended. I hope there will be more books from Roone. Highly recommend.

elizabethpalmer1's review

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emotional hopeful lighthearted relaxing slow-paced

3.0

lelyreads's review

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4.0

Roisin Meaney knows how to write characters! It took me a little bit to make all the connections between the numerous characters and keep track of who was who, but the complex relationships and depth of development was unlike most other books I've read. The characters are easy to connect with and pull the reader into their lives.

The setting is as beautiful as the characters are complex - a gorgeous Irish island in the heart of summer. The language used to describe the setting made this book truly an escape and conjured up memories of my own childhood growing up on the water.

This book was so much more than what I expected from the synopsis. Though it was my first foray into the lives of Roone's residents, I plan to go back and read the Meaney's other books set on the island.

Thank you to NetGalley and Hachette Books Ireland for providing me with an ARC.

annarella's review

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4.0

I fell in love with cover, lovely and with a summer feeling. I liked the book, well written and perfect for a summer afternoon.
It's an engrossing and entertaining read, heartwarming and full of lovely characters.
It's the first book I read by this author and won't surely be the last.
Recommended!
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.
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