Under a Skellig Sky
by Breda Joy
4/5 Stars
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Under a Skellig Sky is about Carol, an artist from the small town of Glenosheen, who has been traveling about and returns home to help her Mom Mary run the family Inn, adding on AirBnB customers. The Inn is on the Wild (Wet) Atlantic Way, and Carol also finds herself painting the flowers and the nearby Skellig Islands which have gained fame and notoriety as the setting of the recent Star Wars movies. Carol and Mary take pity on some stray travelers, and Carol has some adventures of her own, learning to heal and grow from past hurts.
I really enjoyed this book. Although there were parts of it that were a bit predictable, the prose was lovely and having been to that part of Ireland myself, it was nice to revisit it as an armchair traveler. You could truly visualize the seacoast and sky and the little puffins as the author described them. The adventures were great, and the parts that were thrilling and scary were very well written. The other thing I liked about this book is that the characters in it showed growth. They changed over the course of the story and were not the same as when they started. That is one of the best things to find in a story for me. So I would recommend this book.
Thanks to Book Sirens for a free ARC of this book -my opinions are my own.
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