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emilyisreading2024's review
3.0
It was okay, but not great. The action was a little slow and for some reason Father Tim's wife and his relationship with her seemed almost too perfct or something. It sort of got on my nerves after a while. Also, the lengthy excerpts from the old diary that his wife finds are not as interesting as other parts of the story, and I found myself wanting to skip them. All in all, though, it was entertaining and sort of charming. I think I will try some of her others to see if I like them more.
hiking_bookdragon's review
3.0
The Mitford/Father Tim books are some of the favorites in my library. While I enjoyed this book I felt the writing a bit lackluster; almost as if the writer was more concerned with the length of the book and not the heart of it. Even though this made it a slow read, it is still an enjoyable story worth recommending to other Jan Karon fans.
tobyyy's review
3.0
Definitely an emotional overload of a story. This is not your typical happy-go-lucky (with a sprinkling of tears) Mitford novel. This one takes place in Ireland, and the tone of the book feels like it’s many shades of gray and black instead of pastels and rainbow colors. Much darker, much more pain and anger and sorrow were expressed in these pages.
I initially rated it a 2/5 stars but that’s not really fair. The writing was good as always, and just because it was more grim than I wanted right now with all the world events going on (plus personal stuff), doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good book.
And I could complain about how Father Tim always solves everything and the books have unrealistically happy and neat endings... but... isn’t that WHY I read them? Or mostly why?
I did miss Mitford but in reading this book, you can tell that Ireland has a special place for Karon.
Also — the diary entries were fascinating but just make another book already! I got so fed up with that storyline alternating with the modern one plus all of the “when it rains it pours” events occurring in the modern timeline too. Felt like enough to make this into two books.
I initially rated it a 2/5 stars but that’s not really fair. The writing was good as always, and just because it was more grim than I wanted right now with all the world events going on (plus personal stuff), doesn’t mean it wasn’t a good book.
And I could complain about how Father Tim always solves everything and the books have unrealistically happy and neat endings... but... isn’t that WHY I read them? Or mostly why?
I did miss Mitford but in reading this book, you can tell that Ireland has a special place for Karon.
Also — the diary entries were fascinating but just make another book already! I got so fed up with that storyline alternating with the modern one plus all of the “when it rains it pours” events occurring in the modern timeline too. Felt like enough to make this into two books.
lydiature's review
3.0
I would have given this a higher rating, but the journal-entry story line really bogged me down. If you ask me, the book would have been much better without it.
paige1947_'s review
2.0
I was very disappointed in " Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except in a corner by myself with a book" these are words to live by
elysahenegar's review against another edition
5.0
So beautiful! I love this series so much--the characters--found family!, the writing, the humor, the tenderness, the redemptive hope bound up in each one. Jan Karon's books are always beautiful on multiple levels. I love the poetry in them, the letters, the emails; this one even includes an old journal left behind generations ago, the entries from which are sprinkled throughout the novel. So, so, good and authentic and gentle. Start at the beginning...you'll build history with these characters.
eedreyer's review against another edition
4.0
Hard to follow the very long list of characters past and present.
teriboop's review
3.0
The second story in Jan Karon's Father Tim series, In the Company of Others, centers around the family running a quaint Irish fishing lodge near Tim's ancestral home of Sligo, Ireland. On this trip, Tim brings Cynthia and they intend to research his family's heritage, but he finds himself in the middle of another family's past and much tangled present. With Cynthia stuck at the lodge with an injury, Fr. Tim finds himself doing what he does best, mending the broken-hearted and showing them the path to peace.
Overall, I enjoyed this story, but it seemed rather discombobulated and disjointed. It may be because I was reading an ereader version. There were many times where the scene would shift between paragraphs but no distinct break was made. One paragraph Tim would be talking to the lodge owner, the next he's talking to Cynthia and you don't know how/when he left the room and entered another. If there was a visual break in the print (i.e., extra spaces between paragraphs, line break, etc.), it would have made all the difference to the ease of reading and understanding the scene shifts. About 2/3rds through, though, I felt like I was back in the Mitford mindset. I love Karon's writing and her comfy, cozy stories with a message that resounds to all who read her books.
Overall, I enjoyed this story, but it seemed rather discombobulated and disjointed. It may be because I was reading an ereader version. There were many times where the scene would shift between paragraphs but no distinct break was made. One paragraph Tim would be talking to the lodge owner, the next he's talking to Cynthia and you don't know how/when he left the room and entered another. If there was a visual break in the print (i.e., extra spaces between paragraphs, line break, etc.), it would have made all the difference to the ease of reading and understanding the scene shifts. About 2/3rds through, though, I felt like I was back in the Mitford mindset. I love Karon's writing and her comfy, cozy stories with a message that resounds to all who read her books.
grandma_debby's review against another edition
Somehow this one seemed a little less believable than others in Jan Karon's series, but I wouldn't have missed it!