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Jan 14, 2016BWilsoned rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I know a lot of folks love this series of books, but this first one just doesn't seem very well written to me. I'm trying to put a finger on it, but perhaps it's not the writing but the subject and characters I just don't connect with as well as I'd like. Barry, Fingal, and Kinky make an interesting household and the small town characters are comic, pitiable, or despicable in turn. Perhaps the time period just doesn't strike a nerve for me (even though it's during my lifetime). The best part for me was the glossary of Irish Gaelic words/phrases in the back of the book.