Another tour, another adventure

Synopsis

Travel Together Tour Manager Eve Mitchell is planning a quiet Christmas at home to rest and relax before a special New Year. But she soon, very unexpectedly, finds herself in the depths of the Essex countryside looking after a singles’ group which contains some old, familiar faces and some pleasant – and not so pleasant – new ones. With its country walks, quizzes, disco and black-tie ball, the Christmas and Twixmas Break passes quickly, but just as they think it’s all over the plot takes a twist and we learn some dark secrets…

My review

Tour manager Eve Mitchell is truly looking forward her calm Christmas celebration. She needs the calm before the special New Year, as her son will be getting married. But her calm and quiet – time is being ruined when a travel group needs her rescue in the Essex countryside.
Once again Eve is seeing familiar faces between the new ones. And once again this holidays will be filled with twists and turns amongst country walks and quizzes.

Once again we can enjoy the work of this author, and enjoying Eve Mitchell’s talent as a tour manager.
This time her adventure is closer to home, but nevertheless it’s still an adventurous one! 😀

When the story starts, I wanted Eve to be more stubborn in a way. Because she made it very clear she needed this time off, yet she finds herself packing up and helping out, once again. Although it was a good thing of her, of standing her ground and demanding all the extras she also got.
But of course Eve wouldn’t be Eve if she would let a group stand in the cold without an extra thought.

The story taking place in Essex made it perhaps easier for me to imagine the setting, as it’s also for me a bit closer to home, even if my home is in Belgium. But it’s easier to imagine Essex, which has many similarities to places in Belgium, than for example India or Antigua.

And it was of course great to see some old friends again. Although I have to admit, I wasn’t that happy to see *everybody – everybody* back… 🤣
I was glad to see how some characters haven’t change a bit, but also to see the change made in the past books was still present.

Obviously it was also good to make some new acquaintances, even if also in this case, there were some nice new meetings and some not so… We see once again a diversity of people, of characters that can make your life easy or difficult.

Eve obviously is the main protagonist, and where in the first book of the series she was a rather lonely character, now her life has expanded with not only her son in the picture, but also the man she in fact never stopped loving.
But in this chapter of Eve’s life we also see glimpses of her former life, and the family she left behind. And while initially I was wondering if it were truly all that bad as she would make us believe, I was shocked to see how the reappearances behaved. I would have thought that some things would have been water under the bridge, to only realize the opposite.
Yet it was great to see Eve putting her priorities straight and doing the right thing for her and her real loved ones.

I truly enjoyed reading this book, seeing Eve doing her thing closer to home, but being still an amazing tour manager. And it was lovely to see how also in her personal life were finally falling into place. And now it’s up to the next chapter! ☺️