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is a warm funny book that draws the reader into the world of the story, You feel connected to the many characters, who delight and appall the reader in equal measure, There are many laugh out loud moments but it also has a very poignant central story line that touches the reader on a much deeper level.
The main protagonist is charming and lovable and the reader follows the lives of this disparate group over a short week, but by the end of the book you feel like you are leaving your friends.
Well written and researched this is truly an unputdownable read, This book was okay. The story follows a bus tour group around Ireland led by Conor, The language and substance is fairly simple, What I didn't like about it was the way the author went from one character to another in subsequent paragraphs with no separation, I was expecting one to be somehow associated with the other, but no, the paragraph would just pick up that character's story arc and leave the previous one with no transition.

Many of the characters' stories were so predictable, you could see their conclusions as far as the Atlantic horizon off the Irish coast.
Others were a bit more subtle,
This version had a few chapters from the sequel, but I doubt I'll give it a go, Conor O'Shea is a tour guide in Ireland, He is responsible for the visitors on the tour, setting up room accommodations, meals and other necessities to assure them of a comfortable visit in the Country.
On this particular trip, he gets more than he bargained for, Husbands walking out on their wives when they learn the wife is pregnant, a cantankerous knowitall College Professor who assaults one of the guests and tries bribing the Garda when she is arrested, a mother seeking a rich husband, her musical son obsessed with the uilleann pipes, a Boston Police Officer who is overly helpful, a Texan who has a secret, a retired school teacher who was born in Ireland and is searching for her roots.
And if this isn't enough, besides dealing with the tourists, Conor has to deal with an old girlfriend from America who has designs on Conor and wants to move back to Ireland with her son, Conor's nephew.
Oh, and did I mention the waitress from Ukraine whose mother back home has just been hospitalized with heart problems Through it all, Conor keeps his cool and works through each situation as it comes.

The Tour is a story that takes us on a tour of Ireland, The tour bus is driven by Conor, and on board are: Patrick, Bert, Ellen, Corlene, Dylan, Anna, Dorothy and Juliet, Each of these characters brings an “issue” along on the ride, Each of their “issues” brought about an extreme development in the book, Far fetched Somewhat. Believable Not really. The people we meet along the way are given traits, characteristics and names that can be portrayed as “only the Irish”,
Some implausible scenarios and conversations,
I found this book to be utterly ridiculous at times,
The Tour: A Trip Through Ireland is by Jean Grainger, This book is nothing like I thought it would be, I thought it would actually be a tour where they talked about the places they were visiting, Then I could remember those places that I had been to when I was there, Instead, it was a bus tour which dwells on the people on the tour more than on what they are seeing, Despite it being different from what I expected, I loved the book, It was very difficult to put it down when I needed to do mundane things like fix meals for the family, The bus tour is a very interesting way to tell a story and Jean Grainger makes it work, The details and background of the Irish that is told through the tour itself and through the character of Ellen who is looking for her past are amazing.

Each of the characters is very welldescribed and is very realistic, When you go on a bus tour, you never know who you will meet and Jean does a great job in deciding what characters to include.
The friendliness and love the Irish have for tourists came through quite well, I could visualize some of the people I met on my trip through these characters,
I did not want the book to end and am looking forward to reading Jeans next book and her novella, I cant wait to return to Ireland with her,

This is a very likable book, with interesting characters, some lively plot lines and lots of interesting historical tidbits about Ireland, It is an easy read, but again, ruined by the poor editing,

A book is not just the story, the plot lines, the descriptive passages, It also is the way in which it is presented, I am sure there are people who will find me nitpicking, but if the presentation is bad then it detracts from the story, For once I would like to find one of the Indie novels that is wellpresented, where spelling has been checked and double checked, where words don't run into their neighbors, where sentences end with full stops, etc.
I'd like to read a book where I am not aware of the words on the page, just the story,

Rant done. I thoroughly enjoyed this book,

My husband gave me this book for my birthday and I have to admit he really knows how to pick out books for me.
He has never missed the mark,

This one was a very pleasant surprise, It was light hearted, humorous and full of interesting characters most likeable, some not, They are all Americans on a one week tour of Ireland driven by tour director Conor O'Shea, He has never had a group like this one, Each one had their own story to tell, A fun book to read with some adventure and a good insight into both the historic and contemporary life and culture of Ireland, Entertaining and an easy read, This book was great! It was nothing like I've ever read, I saw the title of the series and said, "I'm going for it"! I went in blind amp I mean so blind I didn't even know if it was a romance, lol.
It was though, in fact it had a few, I really enjoyed it thoroughly amp am excited about the second book in the series, I may have given a higher review to this, but felt the book wasn't as described, The review indicated the fact the group was traveling around Ireland to various points of interest, The book to me is more about relationships, a little bit too quicksolve, and barely mentions travels around Ireland, Simply not my kind of book, Hope I don't sound like Dorothy, Somewhat predictable but nonetheless a very pleasant read about a tour guide and the group of Americans he takes around Ireland, Very characterdriven, so if youre looking for descriptions of the Irish countryside, this isnt your book, My friend Michelle asked me to read this book to verify that it was as bad as she thought, It is. I can't explain how it is rated,by,readers How Who are these people What am I missing You may be saying you went into reading with a bias maybe, but I tried to find something to like, honest.
Below is a list of my disgruntled observations: WARNING: There are lots of spoilers, so if you do want to read this book, stop here and take mystar review as my recommendation.


The cover cheesy,
The narrator audible version He overdid all the accents to the point it was comical and made the characters even more one dimensional than they already were.

The characters Ugh. Let me explain and I warn again there are spoilers, I've assigned an alternative character name to each because this is what they came across as to me,
Connor "Casanova" He's the tour guide, Although he proclaims many a time to not understand women and love is not for him, he bags himself a Ukrainian wife in one night.
Whatever.
Ellen "The old lady" Probably the least annoying of all the characters but her story, which could possibly the most viable one, gets lost with all the other crap happening.

Anna and Juliet "Dumb and Dumber" Anna, of course gets dumped by her husband for getting pregnant, How she has never picked up on his total assholeatude and is shocked by his response to the news is beyond me, THEN Juliet, door mat of the century I've eaten potatoes with more personality has the best idea ever! The two of them could buy a house in Florida and Juliet will become the baby's grandmother! Mind you they have known each other exactlyordays when this genius plan is cooked up.
Yea, I can absolutely see that happening, . .
Burt "Foghorn Leghorn" That's what the narrator made him sound like, All I can say is he is Texan, Oh, yes and he just gives away thousands of dollars once a year to people he meets when he travels and he deems they could use his help.
Where do I find this man in real life I'll tell you NO WHERE!
Dylan "The Piper" So, he falls in love with the Irish pipes and in a span ofdays yephe is taken in by a musical family, with a teenage daughter, and he can stay with them to learn the pipes at no charge.
No one else sees a problem here Well, let me tell you they do, but everyone in this book is such good, trustable folk that it makes great sense.
I can't even!
Coraline "The Prostitute" Yep, how else do you define someone who says she must catch a man on this trip to be able to afford cab fare when she gets home And, she calls the man her next "victim.
" We learn she has hadprevious victims and ignores her son, Dylan, No worries, because the water in Ireland can reform anyone AND in justdays BAM! she declares she no longer will need a man to support her.
Send all gold diggers to Ireland STAT!
Patrick "Boston" He's from Boston, the reader will be reminded of that several nauseating times, He is surprised to see a gay person, he thought there were no gays in Ireland, I had to relisten to check myself because what in the actual fuck! Need I say more Of course I can say more, because in justdays he meets the love of his life and proposes marriage.
Now I have said enough,
Dorothy "Hag" She has a PhD from Harvard but yet treats everyone like the “backwards people” they are AND she beats up Juliet her friend and who she brought on the trip AND she gets arrested AND tries to bribe the guards BUT she is freed! And just like that indays she becomes an angel.
I guess a Harvard degree is not all it's cracked up to be

Whew! What a rant, If you are still reading, thank you and Im sorry if I have ruined the possibility of you reading this book, In summary, what I think is supposed to be a collection of heartwarming stories just turns into a mess of unbelievable bullshit, .