★★★★★ jasemine 18.09.2023 amazon.de

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. So hieß "Jan" , Frau von Charlie, in diesem Buch "Pam", Joel hieß bisher "Binder" mit Nachnahmen und nun plötzlich "Booker" und andere Kleinigkeiten... macht den Eindruck, dass das Buch schnell geschrieben wurde, um das derzeitige Interesse an der Serie auszuschöpfen...Schade

★★★★★ imawo 18.09.2023 amazon.de

This entire series reads like Jenny Colgan writes by rolling the dice on the story: Flora single-handedly rescues stranded whales, there’s an an absurdly rich billionaire , the Syrian war, and throw some European royalty in the mix too, because why not.Stories and names of characters get mixed up and changed and at times the writing is really sloppy (like why did Jans name change to Pam, and why did Joel get a new last name and if you did have to change his name why wouldn’t he have taken on his new adoptive parents last name which would have been sweet), the characters are developed quite poorly, there isn’t much depth except for the character of saif which drags on and on. It gets exhausting how Flora is meant to be this competent manager girl yet she acts really immature and frankly annoying.Foreign cultures are portrayed terribly cliched to a caricature and it’s quite frankly done in pretty poor taste.It seems like the writer pays no attention to coherence of the series and the editor’s asleep on the job.I read this against my better judgement after the last books because Mure is cute and the story of Fintan and Colton was surprisingly well written in comparison and I’m a sucker for feel-good scenic holiday books, but I’m done with Jenny Colgan.