Bit of a twee romance book, very hallmark movie.
Not everyone's cup of tea. Thank you netgalley for the advance copy

This was just so silly. It read like a hallmark movie meets Emily in Paris but… not done well 🫣 the fmc was annoyingly cheerful and delusional lol and the mmc was honestly just forgettable and boring and kind of a red flag. I wanted to love this based off the premise but.. no this wasn’t great.

Also the narrator sounded like the great British bake off voiceover lady and it was weird lol

Thanks to NetGalley for the arc.

The Floating Amsterdam Flower Shop is full of charm. Great characters, an interesting, thriving setting, and a sweet love story. I loved the houseboat living and the characters at the Floating Flower Market. You could tell how much the author loved writing this story. A great summer read that makes you want to travel to Amsterdam ASAP.
Thanks to #NetGalley and AvonBooks UK for the ARC.

Thank you so much for the chance to give this book an early read. This story is giving all the Hallmark movie vibes and I was absolutely living for it! This is just what I needed to get me over my book slump.

This is a pleasant and enjoyable novel but I can’t say the plot blew me away. It’s well written but I felt it was just lacking in something to keep me totally invested although I enjoyed the descriptions of Amsterdam. Thank you to NetGalley, Avon Books UK and the author for the chance to review.

3.5 stars- full review on Goodreads
Partial review here:
This author does a great job of setting up pretty great secondary characters but some of the relationships fell
Flat for me. Rosie and Max’s relationship felt off. I get that the point was to make it feel deep and fast but bringing the ex back around only to have that fizzle out so quickly felt a little forced and uneventful. Plus their make- up in the end fell short for me and didn’t feel as emotional as I’d hoped for especially with how he treated her. Noah and Emma’s communication felt the same for me- like when Noah said “I’m only that shy with you” although he barely spoke to her the majority of the book and backed off anytime she showed more than an ounce of emotion.
The end of the book felt a little rushed and some of the details felt off like the fact that her sister was interested in a doctor at work, but at the end of the book they refer to him as a consultant.

This book was so fun! I was thankful for the opportunity to read an advanced copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Rosie makes the decision to start over again in Amsterdam, with a flower shop at a market. Competition can add some stress with your own business, and it really adds to the story! This was such a fun and relatively quick read, and I really liked Rosie a lot! I cant wait to read the next book, because this is going to be a series!

Thanks for NetGalley for an advance copy.

Rosie decides to move to Amsterdam to try and make a new life owning a flower shop. Rosie rents a houseboat next door to a grumpy neighbor. The story was sweet and Amsterdam sounds amazing, I want to book a trip to see all the sights.

Rosie is an enjoyable main character and her friends were so much fun. It was nice sweet summer read. I look forward to the next book in the series.

Rosie's mother, a botanist, died when Rosie was a girl, but she still misses her mother dearly. Rosie has continued her mother's love for flowers and plants. She hasn't had any real love experience and she's been in dead-end jobs for her whole "career." But she's completed training as a florist, she's been taking lessons in Dutch, and she yearns to have a flower shop at the floating floral market in Amsterdam. So she leaves her sister and father in England and moves to Amsterdam. She finds a run-down houseboat to live on and has to learn the ropes to get even the smallest of small available shops in the market. She's an upbeat type of person, makes friends easily, and she's a loyal friend and longs to contribute to her new community.

However, there are two very grumpy men that she needs to deal with. The man on the neighboring boat keeps to himself and sometimes complains about her joyful singing and talking to herself. Another man, with multiple employees and a large shop at the market is downright nasty to her and others. He's actually like to put her out of business.

But with Rosie's personality, and her willingness to help others, she makes inroads with both.

This is a clean romance and it's a great book emphasizing working hard, helping others, and trying very hard to keep a positive attitude, no matter what life throws at you.

This is the first book by the author that I've read and I enjoyed it very much.

Great setting and interesting plot. Loved the cover and the idea of a houseboat. I really really wanted to love this but I just couldn’t like Rosie. Her impulsiveness wasn’t cute it was arrogant when she then felt entitled to help - getting a flower stall, mending a boat etc.. and for someone who didn’t want to dwell on losing her mother twenty years ago, she didn’t miss an opportunity to keep on and on about it. I usually root for the heroine against adversity but here I felt a lack of sympathy.

I enjoyed reading The Floating Amsterdam Flower Shop by Annabel French. You will fall in love with all the characters. I received an ARC of this book courtesy of NetGalley and the publisher. All opinions expressed in this review are my own and given freely. Happy Reading!

Rosie's fun, impulsive and seeking a serious hit of dopamine after a run of boring dead-end jobs. Scrolling Instagram, she comes across the floating market in Amsterdam and decides on a whim to leave her home and move to Amsterdam to set up her own flower stall. I admire anyone who is able to uproot their life in an instant to seek happiness!
A short while later, she's in Amsterdam, on her rented houseboat and ready to start her new life!
Cue her grumpy, yet intrguing neighbour Max, who seems to swoop in just when she needs him, making her rethink her take on swearing off relationships.
As she settles into her new life, she makes new friends including fellow stallholder Emma, and enemies in rival flower seller Finn.
I loved Rosie's positive attitude and her approach to life, seeing the bright side in everything, and I found it really inspiring!

As someone whose personal love story also took place in the Netherlands, I absolutely adore reading similar stories in a setting that is incredibly special to me. This is a lovely, easy read book and a lovely little palette cleanser after reading heavy books. I’m a sucker for grumpy x sunshine, so this was exceptionally enjoyable to read. This book is definitely a lighthearted, quick read, and very fun.

I love Annabel French's books and feel this one is the best I have read. Wonderful narratives, lovely setting and descriptions. Highly recommend.

This was a sweet, honestly low stakes, read and heavy on friendships which helped put my mind which is constantly running on high speed at a steady pace. The optimism Rosie had was something I needed to read about in the moment, when life is so uncertain, that’s when you need to take the risks towards a happier version of yourself. No one is going to live your life for you. Also, how she was able to pick herself up and take on the challenges of new language and community members not always on her side while never losing that touch of kindness is a reminder many of us need to hear. But I felt like she didn’t have a lot of depth to her character, so it was hard to take her seriously. I loved the way that Amsterdam was shown off in this! As someone who has visited before, I felt like the bright and friendly atmosphere really came to life through the bloemenmarkt and the houseboats and canals. The charm of a European city helped make this a great spring/summer read!

what a perfect summer read! Rosie's journey to making her floating flower shop come true, finding love, creating community all while adjusting to life in a new country and learning a new language unfolds in this page turning from com. I wanted to visit all the places in the book, especially Linny's Garden. Grab yourself a Stroopwaffle and treat yourself to 2 things as you read through this adorable read.
Thank you NetGalley, Annabel French and Avon books UK for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The Floating Amsterdam Flower Shop was a great book that gave me everything I want in a book. This is book 1 of the Floating Shop series.
Rosie and Max were written in such a way that I felt like I had known them for years. After reading this book I now want to go to a floating flower shop.
Thank you NetGalley, Annabel French and Avon Books UK for the copy of The Floating Amsterdam Flower Shop. This is my personal review

Thanks to the Publisher and Netgalley for an early review copy.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book.

Rosie, isn’t happy in the job she’s doing. Having done a course on floristry, she loves anything to do with flowers, and plants.

Rosie makes a decision to leave everything behind and go live on a boat in Amsterdam, hoping that she can turn her passion into selling flowers at the flower market.

But, when she arrives at her boat, it isn’t exactly as she hoped it would be. It’s not been taken care of for a long time, but she won’t let that stop her from doing what she’s come for. When she meets her neighbour, he isn’t a happy bunny either, Max, an artist and Rosie tries to get him to talk to her, but the conversation doesn’t last long.

When she does get the stall at the market, there’s further problems and Rosie contemplates going back home. Will Rosie’s dream come true, or will it all be too much for her?

I loved the characters and the vendors at the market. I couldn’t put this book down.

I highly recommend this book.

This was a lovely read. I was really taken with the idea of a floating flower market and was keen to learn more. Rosie took a huge step to move to Amsterdam and try to fulfil a dream. I loved all the descriptions of the market, the flower stalls and the flowers, I loved her unique take on creating bunches of flowers for her customers, Amsterdam in flowers.

Rosie and Max’s friendship was nice to watch unfold. Rosie is a lovely person through and through and her positive attitude really shines through, creating some fantastic relationships, Max being one of them. Learning his story and seeing Rosie unconditionally support him was moving.

This was a great book to learn more about Amsterdam and flowers and I enjoyed it from start to finish.

The Floating Amsterdam Flower Shop is an inspiring and heartwarming story that transported me to the centre of such a beautiful city. As I journeyed through the chapters with Rosie and Max, the sights, sounds and fragrances felt so tangible - so much so, that this book has now put Amsterdam firmly on my list of places to travel to. My husband has even been pricing up flights after I told him about the floating flower market featured in this book!

I really loved all that The Floating Amsterdam Flower Shop portrayed; not only showing the city in all its glory, but also the power of community, the importance of heritage, the strength of friendship and all that can be gained from taking a chance.

An uplifting story with a fabulous array of characters and a stunning book cover! I can’t wait for the next book in the series.

Thank you to Avon Books UK for an advance digital copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.