I really, really wanted to love Flora’s Travelling Christmas Shop. The premise was great, the setting perfect, but I just could not enjoy reading it no matter how hard I tried. 

The writing style and Flora herself were a little too out there and dare I say it, eccentric, for me. It just wasn’t really believable from the get go and that was a theme through the whole book. Some of the ways of phrasing things and quotes honestly made me cringe a little bit, which ruined the book for me. The writing style just did not work for me personally, and I don’t think I’ll be picking up another Rebecca Raisin book. 

The plot was predictable, which can have a place at times, but probably when done a little differently to this. Maybe I just lost a bit of my Christmas spirit over the course of reading after getting a mid-summer surge - who knows. 

I’m sure it’s perfect for some other Christmas-loving reader, but I just was not that reader unfortunately. 

Thank you to NetGalley for very kindly sending me an advanced copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.