Cards From Khloe’s Flower Shop by Isabella Louise Anderson

Published by Chick Lit Goddess on January 15, 2017
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Chick Lit, Women’s Fiction

As the owner of a successful florist shop, Khloe Harper trusts her instincts. She has a strong bond with her family and friends, but after being betrayed by her last love, she’s kept herself at arms’ length from romance. When dashing entertainment attorney Derek Thomas walks into her store, Khloe’s interest is piqued. What at first seems like a business relationship quickly turns into romance, and Derek slowly plucks away the petals she’s been hiding behind. Just as Khloe lets down her guard, she discovers that Derek may not be worthy of her love after all.

Frumpy Connie Albright has a faux fascination with an imaginary man named Walt, thinking that by sending herself flowers from him she’ll feel less out-of-place with the “mean girls” she works with. When she comes face to face with her possible prince charming and thinking she might have a happy ending, when a truth is revealed, she wonders if she’ll ever have a Cinderella story.

A recently widowed senior, Gabby Lewis, isn’t ready to give up on love—which means releasing herself from survivor’s guilt and taking a chance on finding happiness and companionship again. After signing up for an online dating site for senior citizens, much to her surprise, she’s matched with Harry, an energetic and loving man, who quickly eases himself into her heart. Will Gabby take the leap of falling in love again, knowing it’s possible to have two loves of her life?

As each woman’s story develops through flowers and cards sent from Khloe’s shop during the Fall months, they begin to learn that love can only truly blossom when you trust your heart.

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Khloe isn’t ready to have her heart broken again.

 Gabby wonder if there is more to life than sitting at home alone each night, studying the Scrabble Dictionary and watching The Tonight Show.

 Dressed in her lime green and orange flannel pajamas, drab Connie sits on her couch to watch a marathon of Christmas-themed hallmark TV movies. The closest she’s come to love is to send herself flowers from an imaginary lover to her office.

 Get ready to laugh and cry with three intriguing and mainly loveable gals in Author Isabella Louise Anderson’s flowery frolic of a book!  Khloe runs a new, successful flower shop and that’s how we get to meet the other two women. This fun read explores the different scenarios of their searches for love.

On the outside, Khloe seems to be the confident, creative career person, but she’s been hurt in love before. Gabby is in her 60’s and she’s been grieving the death of her beloved husband. Connie knows she needs to make some changes.

One gets a Christmas Eve wedding. One finds her self- esteem and her Prince Charming. And one gal gets her dream guy and something else wonderful.

The story is told in the third-person, and each woman’s story is featured in different chapters. The author made it easy to bounce between characters, because each segment had closure.

I was touched by many memorable moments in the book. I liked that Connie unfriended her loser social media friends that were bringing her down. She was my favorite character in the book because she was different from most chick-lit characters and the author did a great job of portraying her and her struggles.

I also liked reading that the message card is the most meaningful part of the gift of sending flowers. Readers will enjoy this book. While the narrative is a bit clunky at times, overall it is a good story.     –Jena C. Henry

About Isabella Louise Anderson

Isabella grew up with a book in her hand, and to this day nothing has changed. She focuses her time on featuring other writers on her blog, Chick Lit Goddess, along with organizing Goddess Book Tours, and is a member of the Romance Writers of America.

She lives in Dallas with her husband, enjoys spicy Mexican food, margaritas, gin on the rocks (with a splash of lime). She loves spending time with family and friends and cheering on the Texas Rangers. Not only is Isabella an author, she’s also a Scentsy consultant and hoarder.

Isabella is the author of The Right Design and Cards From Khloe’s Flower Shop. Her short story, “Meet Me Under the Mistletoe,” was featured in Simon & Fig’s Christmas anthology, Merry & Bright. She’s currently working on another book.

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