Celebration After Dark (Gansett Island Series)

I love this book. I love this series. And Mac and Linda are the foundation of this entire thing. It's great to read their story and know how things started. Their love for one another is an amazing thing, an amazing gift, and an amazing an example for their children and later will be an amazing example for their grandchildren. It's a nice uplifting book. It shows that family stick together, support one another, love one another, fight for one another for the things that matter to them. So in this book we see Adam and Abby having to deal with a health crisis. There are new relationships forming and friendships are getting stronger. We also see this but the celebration of 40 years of marriage between Mac and Linda is the reason for this book. There's a couple of shockers but I'm not going to tell you about them. The celebration that we are reading about in this book isn't just a celebration of Mac and Linda but it's a celebration of the family that they've created and how those children have chosen the perfect ones for them. It's a celebration of coming together and spending time with one another and also knowing what each other each person so that you can tell when something is wrong or something is extra right. It is a celebration of knowing that you can always come home even if you might leave for a while. Mac and Linda reflect on their lives and how they met. The first day, how they were married, how they had their first child. They share those moments with their children or their children share those moments with them and it's an amazing book to read and it us just is uplifting. This book is a great read it's a quick read. And it is a continuation in this series of Gansett Island that just makes you want to go and visit and meet them and have a big party with them and get to know them so these books that Marie force writes are just wonderful. I enjoy every one of them. It is a five star book for me and I cannot wait to read the next one. I also cannot wait to go back and read the one that I missed. . Thank you! I hope you enjoyed my review. If you'd like to leave a comment please feel free to do so. Thanks I hope you read it. I think you'll like it very much.

WOW! What a truly amazing story! I loved reading about Big Mac and Linda, aka Voodoo Mama and how they met and fell in love. Big Mac is such and outstanding father to his kids. I love how emotional he can be around them. It was great to see how once he saw Linda he was determined to have a future with her. He was so focused on his goal, and so honest about what he felt. He came on so strong at first but because we've loved Big Mac from the very start it's easy to understand his actions. He definitely loves with his all his heart. It was nice to see what Linda was like when see was younger. In Maid For Love she didn't really come across as a very nice person. Over the years we've come to see just how much she loves Big Mac and her kids. I love how she welcomed Mallory into the family and how she continually encourages her involvement in everything the family does. I like that she sees which of her kids needs her by just observing them. She definitely lives up to her name of Voodoo Mama. Celebration After Dark was truly a wonderful book to read. I loved catching up with the all of the McCarthy family members. I can't wait to see what happens next. We definitely have some things to look forward to in the next book. Im sure we will all love reading about Slim and Erin. I'm looking forward to Evan and Grace' s getaway wedding. I'm also anxious to see how Mac and Maddie as well as Joe and Janey manage their changing lives. I loved this book. As I was reading it I was enjoying it so much I didn't want it to end! It's always so hard to come to the end of one of Marie Forces books. You always want the story to continue. I can't wait for her next release. Thank you Marie Force for continually writing outstanding novels!

Full of love with a bit of the sad this story includes anniversary celebrations, weddings, medical news, new pregnancies and flashbacks to how Mac and Linda met. Their story is sweet and so good. It was great seeing them when they were 19 & 20 and to see how their relationship and their marina evolved. Loved touching base with their children and the ones “ones they picked up”. Even though it was full of snow ice and blizzards the island is never a dull place!

Another good book by Marie force. Happy to read Big Mac's and Voodoo Mama's story!

What a fitting way to read the start of a fun loving family. I spent my Sunday morning/afternoon having to finish the book. I laughed, I cried (lots of tissues) laughed and I smiled at the love that has shown through all the books and to know the history of Big Mac & Linda. I cried so much in this book and I of course, once again, I had to laugh, Mac and once again had to stop with laughter with his antics.... Marie Force, I am so happy to hear that this series of Gannett Island will not end and you keep us wanting to know more about the rest of the islanders. You let us know about their happiness, their sadness, and involve us in their losses, their might never be & their gains. More please....

I loved, loved, loved this story. It was really great to read about Big Mac and Linda now and when they first met. The early days of the marina, Joann not to mention Ned and Linda's first impressions of Gansett Island itself. And on top of all that (if that wasn't awesome enough!) There was the chance to catch up with Mac and Maddie, Grace and Evan, Adam and Abby, Janey and Joe and Grant and Stepahnie. Which threw up plenty of surprises that made the whole story much more enjoyable. And for me, this is definitely a MUST read for anyone who is a fan of the series, and especially the McCarthys. As you really won't be disappointed.

Such a feast to finally get to know how Big Mac and Linda met and to catch up with the rest of the Gansett Island characters. Such a mix of fun and emotion. Looking forward to Slim and Erin's story and to learn of any more developments in the others' lives. Thanks Marie for your wonderful writing.

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