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The blurb:
Poppy
Carmichael, 30, certainly never intended to own a florist. But when she
inherits her grandmother's beloved flower shop on the beautiful Cornish coast,
Poppy has no choice but to return to the pretty harbour town of St Felix where
she spent much of her childhood.
Returning to St
Felix brings back sad memories for Poppy. But when she makes new friends such
as local flower grower Jake, a young widowed father of two teenagers, Poppy
begins to overcome her fears, and discover for herself what's so special about
this little flower shop by the sea.
My Opinion:
This book was waiting in my
bookshelf for over a year, so it was about time. I love Ali McNamara’s books,
so I was really excited to start this.
The story follows Poppy Carmichael,
who comes back to St. Felix after 15 years, she’s inherited her grandmother’s
flower shop. It’s hard for Poppy to come back, because of what happened in the
past and on top of it all?! She doesn’t even like flowers. Her mother sends
help in form of Amber, who works in their flower shop in New York. And then
there is also Jake, the local flower grower. He is there to help her from the
start and they start spending a lot of time together.
Jake is a young widowed
father of two teenagers, Bronte and Charlie. Bronte and Charlie remind Poppy of
herself and her brother when they were younger. Jake went through a lot in the
past, so in certain ways he has difficulties to move on. Oh and I think he’s
just fab: so caring, sweet, good looking, funny and much more, hello new book
boyfriend ;).
I really adored the scenes
between the two of them, because there were so many sparks. It wasn’t so easy
though, both had these things from the past and some other things came in
between as well. I don’t want to say more here, but when I was reading it I was
hoping for something to happen between all the time. Let’s just say the
storyline surprised me here, in a good way though.
St. Felix and the community
there are amazing. All the characters are full of heart and passion and they
are really there for each other. The location is wonderful as well and Ali
managed to create this wonderful atmosphere around the characters and add a
gripping storyline as well. I was hooked from the start and didn’t want to
leave the story.
I like looking at flowers,
but I barley know anything about them. I still really liked all the flowery
descriptions and also the subtitles in the chapters. They all had a logic and
sense behind them and it actually added some charm to the story.
There are a lot of feelings
and emotions involved in this story with Jake being a widower and Poppy’s past.
The way we got introduced to it all and slowly read about what happened was
lovely. Ali captured the feelings of the characters beautifully. Yes, it’s all
very emotional, touching and sad, but in the end it’s part of their lives and
it makes them who they are now, ready to start something new.
I really love how all the
characters got their story told as well and it was never too much, always a
great mixture with Poppy’s and Jake’s story in the middle.
The Little Flower Shop by
the Sea is fantastic on so many levels! A wonderful setting, an amazing mixture
of characters, an intriguing storyline and much more. Ali just always manages
to put a smile on my face.
Rating:
My possible cast:
Poppy: Meghan
Jake: Gabriel Macht
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