Genre
Literary Fiction
The Plot
Flora loves Christmas more than anything else in the world. When her boss fires her from Deck the Halls Christmas emporium, she decides to follow her dreams: she books a spot at the Christmas Market in a small town in Lapland, where she’ll sell all things Christmassy, from her van.
❤️ What I liked about Flora’s Travelling Christmas Shop by Rebecca Raisin
⛰️ The Christmas market in Lapland. Another Christmas book set in the far North. It’s the third I read this year: it must be a sign that I have to go and visit these stunning locations!
🚋 Van Lifers. I loved the concept and the strong sense of community that brings this group of people together.
🎄 Christmas cheer. When Flora meets Connor – a sort of Scrooge that speaks with an Irish accent – she does everything she can to convince him that Christmas is much more than gifts, shopping and spending money. Christmas is joy, is family, is helping others and staying together.
I wasn’t so sure about
The characters. Once again, the characters are a bit too one-dimensional for me.
It’s about Van Lifers, but there is no travelling involved whatsoever.
To the score
⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 Another cosy Christmassy romance, to read drinking hot chocolate – or mulled wine – and listening to Christmas Carols.
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