The Dreamer's Flower Shoppe

Friends & Neighbors, Book 2

By: Ava Miles

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's summary

Ava Miles shares another romantic, feel-good blockbuster about following your dreams no matter how impossible the odds—with the power of friends and neighbors to help.

Since childhood, spending those cherished days with her father in his greenhouse, Rose Fiorni always understood the power of flowers to comfort and uplift a human heart.

And now as adult, she needs uplifting bad. Single and unemployed, she’s back living at home with her parents in the old neighborhood along New York’s Hudson River Valley. Her dream airline career is more than grounded. It’s gone for good. At least by moving home she has Vinnie Scorsese, the boy she used to dream of marrying. Her long-time crush on Vinnie is stronger than ever. He’s been the perfect friend since they were kids, and now that she’s home, she wonders if maybe they can be more. And she has her father’s greenhouse, where dreams bloom. The more flowers she cultivates, the more her friends and neighbors want to buy. As it becomes less therapy and more a business, Rose decides to go for it. Only with nothing in her bank account, it seems impossible. Until Vinnie suggests they get married to make it happen. How can she say no when she sees deep down that this is his way of telling her what’s in his heart?

Read by Cassandra Campbell...Cassandra Campbell is a prolific audiobook narrator with more than 700 titles to date like Where the Crawdads Sing and The Help. Winner of four Audie Awards and nominated for a dozen more, she was a 2018 inductee in Audible’s inaugural Narrator Hall of Fame as well as a 2021 inductee as a Golden Voice, AudioFile magazine's lifetime achievement honor. She has consistently been an AudioFile Best Narrator as well as a Publishers Weekly Best Narrator of the Year.

©2021 Ava Miles (P)2021 Ava Miles

Love with flowers

My love of music and flowers enhanced this listen. Each time a song reference was given I could hear it in my head. What a great experience. These Ava characters were great. I plan to listen to this audible again.

Hopeful in the face of covid

I have enjoyed every novel by ava. I really love the glimpses into past characters and how they are interwoven. This story wraps up existing stories from previous novels and gives hope during our current pandemic. The extreme precautions taken during the novel get a little tedious however overall don't give the story the negative energy that is often our current climate. It does however give an optimistic outlook that we can perhaps strive for.

Terrible

I couldn’t listen to more than 30min of this book due to the high pitched, irritating voice of the narrator. Although I purchase over 100 books a year, I could not exchange this this something more enjoyable.