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proudlocks's review
3.0
Good, solid chic lit. Not as mushy as most, which I like, plus I fell in love with Scott and the dog.
hainyh's review
3.0
I am a sucker for a chick-lit romantic fiction, and The Forget-Me-Not Flower Shop ticks all the boxes. Typical romance, boy meets girl, relationship gets off to a rocky start, but the couple eventually comes good and falls in love. A nice, enjoyable, easy read, but nothing out of the ordinary. I enjoyed the reading style and whizzed through this book. Would definitely recommend if you’re a fan of an easy romance.
sarahs_bookish_life's review
5.0
Oh wow what an emotional roller coaster of a read this was!
The story centres around three main characters, Evie, her best friend Laura and Scott. I loved how all three all have their own business, which career wise shows that people can really do anything if they set their minds to it. I like how in a way they are all strong and independent.
Scott's life was one that really makes for emotional reading and made me love his character even more. To take care of his sick mother as well as be a mentor for his nephew, he really has the weight of the world on his shoulders which doesn't leave a lot of time for himself. I so wanted him to find happiness and have something for solely him.
Evie, I really loved as well. The parts to do with her and her dog Marlon had me laughing as well as make my heart melt.
The Forget-Me-Not Flower Shop was an absolutely delightful read that totally enveloped me. Admittedly some parts had me in tears as I was so wrapped up in the characters lives that everything affected me like it did them. By the end they were a mix of joy and sadness at having read such a wonderful book but having to leave the characters behind. I hope the author decides to revisit them one day as that is one journey I would love to tag along for. A heartwarming novel that will captivate your heart.
The story centres around three main characters, Evie, her best friend Laura and Scott. I loved how all three all have their own business, which career wise shows that people can really do anything if they set their minds to it. I like how in a way they are all strong and independent.
Scott's life was one that really makes for emotional reading and made me love his character even more. To take care of his sick mother as well as be a mentor for his nephew, he really has the weight of the world on his shoulders which doesn't leave a lot of time for himself. I so wanted him to find happiness and have something for solely him.
Evie, I really loved as well. The parts to do with her and her dog Marlon had me laughing as well as make my heart melt.
The Forget-Me-Not Flower Shop was an absolutely delightful read that totally enveloped me. Admittedly some parts had me in tears as I was so wrapped up in the characters lives that everything affected me like it did them. By the end they were a mix of joy and sadness at having read such a wonderful book but having to leave the characters behind. I hope the author decides to revisit them one day as that is one journey I would love to tag along for. A heartwarming novel that will captivate your heart.
jayerockett's review
4.0
I was expected light hearted chick-lit, but this book delivers much more than that! It's a touching story about grief and family, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. My one gripe is that I just didn't feel like I connected with Evie as a character at all, I found her rather dull and predictable (and her weird detachment from her dog made me take a dislike to her). I'd love to see a follow up based on Saffy and Josh, for me they were the most interesting characters in the book!
leahmichelle_13's review
4.0
I’ve been on a very strange reading jag at the moment - normally I devour the same genre for a while until I get bored, then move onto the next one but at the moment I’m reading whatever appeals, in whatever genre and it’s kind of freeing. When looking through my Kindle for my next read, because I’ve been neglecting it recently in favour of paperbacks, I dithered a bit with what to choose - it’s hard to pick a book to read when you can’t see the cover, or read the blurb or flick through to the front page real quick, but The Forget-Me-Not Flower Shop caught my eye a little while ago, so I decided why not? I’m giving my books three chapters to hook me in and if I’m not totally sold, I move on to the next one. Thankfully, that didn’t happen here.
The Forget-Me-Not Flower Shop tells a few different stories, all based around the flower shop. Evie has just moved to town and taken over managing the Forget-Me-Not Flower Shop; her friend Laura runs the bridal boutique, and plumber Scott has his hands full looking after his mum, his nephew and dealing with being self-employed. There’s Patricia as well, Mum to Amy, who is getting married to Scott’s nephew Ben, which causes ripples because they’re only eighteen. There’s quite a lot to keep up with, but once you get the jist of the important characters, it was fairly easy. I really liked Evie - reeling from a break-up, she felt like she’d found herself a good place to land, and was hoping to buy the flower shop, eventually. I loved her character, I loved it when she went and adopted Marlon the dog (who felt like SUCH a character, I’m not even kidding, I adore authors who really put effort into making animals part of the book). I was invested in all of the characters, in fact. They all added something to the book and I was never bored by any of them.
Laura probably was my least favourite character. Here’s the thing: I hate cheating. Despise it, and I feel like if you want to be with someone else so bad, then split up with your spouse/partner/whatever. So Laura frustrated me because her entire plot line revolved around her marriage imploding - Martin worked a lot, things Laura tried to spice up the marriage didn’t work, it just wasn’t good. And instead of breaking up, or trying to fix things, Laura decides that the only thing to do - OBVIOUSLY - is to take up the flirtation offered by the dad of one of her brides. Then she goes and asks her friend Evie to lie to Martin, so she can hook up with this dad. And then has the gall to call Evie a bad friend for not doing that. I mean how conceited can you actually be? How much of a horrible person do you have to be? It was the only part of the book I didn’t like. I wanted to punch Laura in the face, in fact, when she got giddy over flirting with a married man, as a married woman. (And before I am accused of slut-shaming Laura - the married man was just as frigging bad.)
Apart from that, I loved The Forget-Me-Not Flower Shop. Reading about a flower shop always makes me want to become a florist, for some bizarre reason (its’ not like every time I hear about a pilot, I want to *become* a pilot, but a florist? YES PLEASE). I loved all the characters. The writing was spot on - it made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me angry, it just made me feel the whole gamut of emotions that you want to feel whilst reading. If a book doesn’t make you feel something, what’s the point, you know? Tracy Corbett has written a fascinating, absorbing read. I really enjoyed it and I’m looking forward to reading whatever Tracy writes next.
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