Christmas at the Island Hotel (Mure)

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And everyone's spoilt and outspoken 5 year old, Agot is back, not happy about Douglas' existence within the family, and generally demanding all manner of things.

There are a lot of characters to keep track of so it was not only hard to keep track of them, they aren’t very likable. Maybe she is a bit jealous, but she is also amazed that Joel went from a high-powered, international lawyer, to a Daddy!

It wasn't just small things, some characters who have been in the entire series now have different first or last names. The Rock - the rambling, disused hotel on the tip of the island - was Colton's passion project before he died. While this book is part of a series, I had no trouble reading it as a standalone, and didn’t feel lost. But running a hotel is far from easy, especially with the staff consists of a temperamental perfectionist of a chef, a kitchen boy who doesn’t know how to pee a potato and a shy kitchen assistant who can’t stop herself from blushing whenever anyone tries to so much as talk to her. However although the MacKenzie family still feature significantly, they’re not really the main focus of the book.

I don’t like the assumption that people are going to leap into bed at the first hint of attraction - it’s not something I’ve been aware of in any of my circles of friends and acquaintances, and there seems to be rather a lot of it in this book, albeit (thankfully) without any intimate details.I love Jenny Colgan's Mure series, and it was a pleasure to be back amongst the MacKenzie family once more. And yet… as happens with all the Jenny Colgan books I’ve read, around the half-way mark I realised I was interested in the storylines, and intrigued to know what would happen.