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Summary: Series losing focus.
Review: Irish Mist, The fourth book in Andrew Greely's series of Nuala McGrail mysteries gives us another look at an unsolved mystery from the past; who killed Kevin O'Higgins. O'Higgins, who was Michael Collins successor in the effort to have an independent Ireland, is the catalyst for the latest of Nuala's "fey" episodes and her husband Dermot once again does the footwork.(Although this time his physical attributes are often brought into play) Mixed with an almost farcical attempt to kidnap Nuala, a charity concert in Ireland, and a commentary on the nature of lovemaking and its importance to a successful marriage, Greely bites off a bit more than he needs to. Sometimes the central mystery gets lost when there is too much extraneous material floating around, and this seems to be the problem here as it was with the last book in the series, Irish Whiskey. Greely tries to make each book a history lesson and maybe a tale that is completely fictional without the baggage of historical documentation is needed to liven the series up a bit. As it is, the books are getting bogged down in subplots, most of which are not worth the reader's time. The strength of the novels is still the relationship of Nuala and Dermot. Maybe that needs to be the focus.
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Summary: Running Out of Steam?
Review: The First Nuala Anne McGrail story, Irish Gold was as she would say herself "Brill". Irish Lace and Irish Whiskey continued the story well. But this tale seems to have lost its way. The rise of Nuala Anne's singing career seems meteoric and not well explained. Why the Irish hatred of her? What we do have here introduced is a wonderful new charactor Fiona the-wonder-dog (apologies to Robert Parker).If you love Nuala Anne, and who wouldn't, you'll want to read this, but it will not grab you as Irish Gold did, I'll bet.
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Summary: my review
Review: This is the first book I read from this author of this "Irish" theme and I was not impressed. I liked the characters and the writing is very funny and brings to the reader the 'irish accent', but all in all, the book did nothing for me.I have read previous books by the author and I prefer them to this kind of "mystery a la Irish".
Rating:
Summary: my review
Review: This is the first book I read from this author of this "Irish" theme and I was not impressed. I liked the characters and the writing is very funny and brings to the reader the 'irish accent', but all in all, the book did nothing for me. I have read previous books by the author and I prefer them to this kind of "mystery a la Irish".
Rating:
Summary: my review
Review: This is the first book I read from this author of this "Irish" theme and I was not impressed. I liked the characters and the writing is very funny and brings to the reader the 'irish accent', but all in all, the book did nothing for me. I have read previous books by the author and I prefer them to this kind of "mystery a la Irish".
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Summary: perty good and cut
Review: this novel is pretty good. although I do not feel any have lived up to Irish gold. but none the less greeley still weaves a cute irish tale.
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