Murder at an Irish Wedding

Rather drawn out, not very believable, and a little repeteve (hashing out the same background details in each book), yet the beautiful performance outweighs all that. (By Caroline Lennon). Often I just like listening to a beautiful voice. I do like the silliness and fairytale quality, on the other hand. So yeah.

I loved this sequel to Murder in an Irish Village. The wedding party did drive me a bit nuts at times, but it was great to see how the rest of the characters developed. Can't wait to read the next one!

2 stars for “it was okay”... I did not personally feel comfortable reading on. It's marketed as a cozy mystery, but it in fact does not conform to the “clean” understanding for the genre. After a few too many details on who's sleeping with who, who might be in the family way, what a “hen party” is, drunkenness and smoking, and quite a bit of taking God's name in vain.

The cultural aspect is fun, and the writing good...I just didn't feel that it fit into the cozy-mystery expectations and thus not into a genre I enjoy reading....there was a trifle too much “soap opera” for me.

I received a free copy from NetGalley for review purposes.