Irish Mist

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Summary: Not a good book!
Review: Another enjoyable read by a man who combines wit, wisdom, spirituality, grace and mystery as no-one else can. This latest installment in the series takes us on another trip through the IRISH TROUBLES in a fashion that is informative, thought-provoking and forgiving. The light-hearted and humouruos account of Nuala and Dermott's attempts to be good spouses is both tender and endearingly famialiar to any new love. Well worth a read.

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Summary: Ireland, history, mystery and romance..the perfect book
Review: Drawn to the Irish connection, I was delighted to find an historical connection as well. To stumble upon an author able to create around both my loves is a dream come true! I could not put this book down. Greeley's description of the main characters paints a portrait so vivid, I feel that I truly know them. Likewise, he takes you to Ireland with such verbal mastery and geographic preciseness, I felt as if I were there. This was my first Greeley novel...discovered quite by accident. I have already purchased Irish Gold, Irish Lace and Irish Whiskey and can not wait to begin another priceless journey through Greeley's words.

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Summary: Ireland, history, mystery and romance..the perfect book
Review: I am a long time reader of Greeley's works (fictional and non-fictional. I admire his attempt to offer insight into the Gospel and grace through his novels. So, this review is from a supporter (morally and through the large library of his works that I have purchased over the years).

Irish Mist is several stories in one. There is the relationship between Nuala Ann and Dermot as they adjust to married life. There is a trip into Irish history. There is also a contemporary suspense story that provides a context for the other two stories. Having read all of the other Naula Ann stories, this installment was a pleasant addition to my growing appreciation of these characters. Their adjustments to married life came across as both realistic and endearing. The trip into Irish history was also well written and fun.

The only part of the story that was disappointing was the contemporary suspense story. It provided unlikely and incompetent villains and really didn't add much to the overall story. The contemporary suspense elements in all of the other Naula Ann stories were much better. For me the primary interest in this work is the development of the main characters. In that regard, it is a satisfying addition to my Greeley library.

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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: customer
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".