In An Apology in Bloom, wedding florist Jaime Harper is on a meteoric rise, working for an event company led by a successful and way-too-handsome boss. When a letter arrives from her past mentor with an offer too good to pass up, will she stay or head back to her hometown? This is a lovely novel to read with drinking a cup of coffee.

What a fun collection of novellas! There are three main characters and they each get their own novella. Then, in the fourth novella, we have all three of them together. It gives you a wonderful closure to the set by having them all in the last one.

Our three main characters met each other as teens. They bonded over a love of flowers and were forever friends. Or so they thought. It’s been seven years and they’ve all gone off in their own ways. But fate may bring them back together.

My dad is a horticulturist. Growing up he was getting his master’s and so we’d often have projects on the go at our home because he’d have to write papers and would need to do his research. Because they were part of his school and therefore his grade we(the children) weren’t allowed to mess with them, but I loved looking and possibly smelling a sniff here and there.

I loved the bits and pieces of flowers and floral work that were thrown into this novel. They were great! I always love to learn and it took me back to those days of my childhood.

The characters were great. I loved following them and seeing where they were going to end up and watching them find love. This novel also contains lots of faith aspects which if you’ve been following me you know I love. Add in that it’s just a sweet all around cute romance novel and it gets 5 stars from me.

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Three young women all found themselves working in a small florist shop. Their love of flowers sends them on three separate journeys. They are driven to succeed but with a few detours on the way.

Tessa, Clare and Jaimie discovered much more about themselves than they bargained for. Each had a responsibility to learn and accept what part they played in the past. This discovery led them to reach their dreams.

I enjoyed the three individual stories that made the book. I'm sure you will to. The women became much more beautiful than the flowers they work with.

I really enjoy this author’s books. I have read both her contemporary and historical books and have found them to be easy to read and make you feel good while reading. I liked how this book was divided into four stories and how the first three stories were about Jaime, Claire, and Tessa and their journey to come home to Sunrise and face the past. I liked how each story showed how they had grown over the years and how they had found what they wanted to do. I liked how in the final story they all came home and learned the truth about the past. I liked seeing how things resolved and how the love of flowers and a flower owner brought them back together. I thought this was a great read and would read it again.

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unfortunately really not for me - I love flowers, romances, and all the imagery initially there, but the plot was weakened by the writing and all the religious stuff.

A wonderful collection of novellas embracing friendship, forgiveness, and faith. I enjoyed the warm characters, the romances, and especially the elements of faith throughout each story.

𝐀 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬 is a collection of four novellas about three friends, Jaimie, Claire, and Tessa. As teenagers, the trio worked together at a flower shop, and now, years later, they reunite in their hometown of Sunrise, North Carolina.

I love the structure of this book, featuring individual stories for each girl, concluding in a final novella binding them all together: An Apology in Bloom (Jaimie), A Bouquet of Dreams (Claire), A Field of Beauty (Tessa), and A Future in Blossom.

Although each character and story carry their own charm, my strongest connection is with Tessa and her challenges in A Field of Beauty.

I like these engaging characters and appreciate the story themes of friendship, mystery, and romance. Learning about flowers, soil, and such is a bonus.

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A collection of stories where flowers are featured. Each story is filled with faith, friendship and happy endings. The author does a great job of giving us relatable characters we want to cheer for. I loved learning about flowers and how delicate they are. The descriptions were so vivid I could see the beauty of the bouquets that were created. Get ready for a great time with friends who support each other. Healing the heart happens in the most unexpected ways in this faith filled collection of stories.

An Apology in Bloom

Jamie works very hard trying to please customers with her designs. One particular customer is very picky but Jamie pulls off an exceptional bouquet that brings a nice compliment for Jamie. With all her skills Jamie thinks it is time to enter the Blooms to Bouquet competition.

Jamie’s boss Liam is found rocking out to a gospel song when she arrives at the shop. She had no idea that he liked Christian music. It is a perfect opportunity for Jamie to be reminded that she still has not found a church to go to since moving to New York City. I loved when Liam told Jamie, “Faith brings new life.” Hmm. Is Jamie looking at Liam in a different light now?

What a mess Jamie gets into when her bouquet becomes a finalist. The problem is the bouquet is for a very prestigious wedding. The mother of the bride is furious because the picture of the bouquet is all over Instagram. Will Liam forgive Jamie for this huge mistake? Is the wedding ruined? Stay tuned to see where Jamie goes after the fiasco she thinks she made.

A Bouquet of Dreams

Claire finds herself at a boring conference on her twenty-fifth birthday. What a way to celebrate her birthday. Her boss thinks she needs to have better customer service skills. Perhaps being direct and expanding on her knowledge of flowers all the time isn’t quite what customers want to hear.

It was interesting to learn Claire’s background. Being a military brat she traveled a lot as a child. When her mom left, she lived alone with her dad going from place to place. Her dad goes overseas but Claire has had enough of moving. Staying with her grandparents was a great decision. Her life makes another sudden change when she suffers a loss.

Claire has big dreams in the flower business but her dad doesn’t share her enthusiasm. No one seems to understand that flowers ‘is in the business of happiness.” Meeting MaryBeth and her husband is an answer to prayer for Claire. They take her in and let her work in their flower shop. I did see that Claire did begin to complain a bit when she was so sure MaryBeth would retire. Is Claire expecting to be given the flower shop?

This story has a great lesson on forgiveness and giving second chances. Claire faces her past at the conference and sees how much she has judged someone unfairly. Will Claire return to her hometown?

A Field Of Beauty

Tessa is ready to open her own flower farm. What an intriguing idea. Now all she has to do is get started. After buying Mountain Farm she is ready to go. Can she convince Dawson to analyze the soil? It doesn’t sound very promising as Dawson lets her know that it will need a lot of work to get the soil in good condition.

I can’t believe that Tessa was talked into giving Dawson base plus a fifty-fifty cut. This is going to get very interesting . Her boyfriend is not happy that she cancels their date in order to stay and help Dawson out. As they work together, they see tiny little seeds start to grow. It gets them both hopeful that they will be successful in their long term plan.

Oh my . I am shocked at what happens at a dinner that Tessa attends with her boyfriend. He is running for office and I didn’t like him much. He is a bit arrogant and doesn’t really respect Tessa at times. Things did go from bad to disaster as Tessa’s farm is in danger of being taken away from her. Dawson tells Tessa, “you can’t fix what you don’t face.” Such a good story of turning your life back to God. God will forgive your of your mistakes. The hardest part is to forgive ourselves.

A Future in Bloom

This story brings four characters back together. I loved seeing how the women all came back to face their past. Rose is definitely the reason the group has returned to reunite. Past pain and harsh words need to be healed. The wedding planned to be hosted in the greenhouse sounded so exciting. I loved seeing how the friends began to work together again. But lingering in the background was the past that they all needed to talk about. The ending is bittersweet but oh how I loved how the author brings this story full circle.

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This story took me completely by surprise. What I was expecting was a set of stories that happened in different seasons dealing with flower shops, where four women find their true love. What I got was a series of interconnected stories of three friends who have wandered from their hometown and their beloved mentor is calling them back home. Not only that but there is a sort of mystery that took place all those years ago that has affected all that were involved. What happened and why are they being called back home kept those pages turning for me.

And yes, there are love stories. Jaimie, Claire, and Tessa all find their love matches with men who will pursue them and not give up on them. Following them all the way back to their hometown. There is also the friendship and love between them and Rose, their mentor, love and care for each of them.

If you are looking for sweet romances with a touch of mystery wrapped up in going home again, this read is for you.

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This was an interesting story for me in that my husband’s parents owned a flower shop in a very small town. I recognized many of the terms used and names of the flowers. I’m also always interested in how an author comes up with the title of a book. This title came to life twice in the story and fit perfectly.
The three ladies, Jaime, Claire and Tessa each had specific talents that complimented each other. Their love of flowers began in high school when a local shop owner took them in and taught them much about the flower business. The real story takes shape as a mishap happens that sends them all in different directions.
All the ladies were easy to care about and matured positively over the seven years they were apart. The four separate stories gave different perspectives from each of their view points. Loved reading this and I wanted to go out and buy myself some flowers. I would love to grow flowers in my own yard but I don’t think even Dalton could improve our dirt.
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“Soil is never beyond repair. That’s the great mystery of it. Nature is constantly at work to heal the mess humans make of this earth.”

I always want to cheer when a new Suzanne Woods Fisher novel comes out.
A Year of Flowers by Fisher is a veritable visual treat of the imagination. With the many varieties of flowers mentioned, the detail given to arrangement description, and the flower knowledge shared, it was clear that Fisher did her homework well. I could easily see the gorgeous bouquets, watch the flower groupings take form, and see the small town vs big city settings. And the characters quickly won me over. Plus, the I appreciated the cast of characters list as well as glossary at the front of each book.

Three girls, Jaime, Claire, and Tessa, had once been best friends in high school. All worked for Rose in a small flower shop in Sunrise, North Carolina. Learning different aspects of the flower business from Rose, the girls think life will go on like this forever, until one night changes everything.

We meet Jaime in the first novella, An Apology in Bloom. Jaime left that awful night and followed her dreams to New York, where her skill and a favor for a neighbor landed her the job of her dreams. Unfortunately, like many people, Jaime has great insecurities and maybe even some imposter syndrome going on. These tendencies often will implode on themselves, and they certainly do in Jaime’s case. But then she receives a letter from Rose, offering forgiveness, a return, and a chance to run the flower shop. Will she face a difficult present or an even more difficult past? What will happen of her fledgling relationship with her uber-successful boss?

Claire makes me laugh with her need to belong, her slightly arrogant opinion of herself, and her inability to see her own faults. She was hard for me to like for quite a while. But the customers at the Savannah flower shop where she now works also find her hard to deal with, and she gets sent to customer service rehab! This scene is a hoot, even as I cringed reading about Claire’s insensitivity to others and the situation. I wanted to say, “Bless your heart,” as used as “Southern code for many things: You poor thing. You’re an idiot. Or What on God’s green earth made you think that was a good idea?” Will Claire survive this last attempt to salvage her present job, or will she consider returning to the past upon receipt of Rose’s forgiveness letter? She would have to face the man she left behind.

Tessa. Sigh. The girl every other girl loves to hate. Partly responsible for the breakup of the friendship of the three girls, now on her own, but still finding herself rescued by men. The one man who doesn’t notice her is the one she needs, Dawson, her previous sustainability prof. Somehow, she convinces him to be her farm manager for the little flower farm she wants to start outside of Asheville. Always the flower who attracts too many bees, Tessa’s beauty doesn’t always work in her favor. Then she gets the third identical letter from Rose…

The last novella, A Future in Blossom, ties all the stories together and brings answers to the many questions the girls’ lives have created. Like the first, there is a good twist in this novella. I really enjoyed this whole compilation. I encourage anyone who has lived through junior high school and bad teenage moments to read this!

I received a copy of the book from Celebrate Lit via NetGalley. I also bought a copy of the book. No positive review was required, and all opinions are my own.

Notable Quotables:

“when you can’t talk about something, it doesn’t go away. It just gets stuffed down.”

“He had reminded her that believing in God was one thing. Trusting in him was where all the good stuff came in. That was where the peace lay.”

“Shame craved secrecy.”

“Feeling beautiful was better than looking beautiful.”

“Flowers had the ability to soften the hardest of hearts.”

“Surely you must have done something you regretted.” That silenced her. “Well, what matters is you clean things up. Right?”

“Unlike people, flowers did not disappoint.”

“Flowers were the business of happiness”-Rose Reid

A Year of Flowers, by Suzanne Woods Fisher, is a compilation of 4 heartwarming novellas. They are well written, easy to read and easy to imagine. The writing is so clear it is easy to see and imagine the smell of the flowers and soil. I enjoyed how the different situations each of the girls experienced coincided with letters they received to return home and work with their previous mentor, Ruth. This shows how God works things to fall into place at just the right time.

An Apology in Bloom – I enjoyed how hard Jaime has worked to reach her dream. She is now working with the person she admires and has successfully submitted an arrangement for a competition. When a wedding does not go off as planned, she leaves to return home to her former boss.

A Bouquet of Dreams – I found this story to be interesting in how strong willed Claire is and how that affected her future when her employers retire. I enjoyed how she get reunited with a man from her past and how caring he is to her.

A Field of Beauty – This is my favorite of the 4 stories. I could almost feel the soil and enjoyment as the young plants started growing. I found it very interesting to read of how Tessa and her employee amended the soil and propagated the young plants. I found it so heartbreaki8ng when the property Tessa put so much work into, was forced away from her. This is such a good story.

A Future in Blossom – This is an enjoyable story as the three young ladies return home and help the mentor that taught them so much about flowers years ago. It was enjoyable to read the background story of the mentor, her family member and the three girls. It was nice to see how each of the girls had different strengths and interests and how they all worked together. It is heartwarming to read of how Ruth, their mentor, worked through what had happened years early and brought them all together.

I voluntarily received a complimentary copy of this book, this is my honest review.

This is a delightful collection of four novellas. Each of the first three builds upon the one previously and then they all come together in the final novella. I am impressed with the structure of the story telling, so finely tuned to all come together in the end. The characters are well crafted and the plot is such that there is a life changing event all the women (and one man) have experienced but is kept secret until near the end. We do know that forgiveness is going to be part of any reconciliation. The characters are well developed. While each of the three women love flowers, there is also an underlying thread of romance. Each of the novellas is open ended so we can imagine how the future might develop.

While the characters are great and the plot expertly crafted, the best part of the book is the flowers. I learned a great deal about them, how they are grown and what kind of soil they need, how some from other countries are flown in to florists, what flowers mean, how bouquets are designed, and much, much more.

Engaging characters and an expertly developed plot make for an entertaining and informative book. There is a clear gospel message included. Fisher has written a good novella collection for anyone but especially those interested in flowers.

I received a complimentary egalley of this book through Celebrate Lit. My comments are an independent and honest review.

A Year of Flowers is actually 4 novellas. While they are 4 separate novellas, we see them intertwined, with the last story putting a bow on it.

We meet a variety of women in the floral industry, all looking for the elusive happiness. We read what happened with each woman, each of them great characters, and why they are the way they are. The male characters are also well developed and for the most part likeable. They do have flaws, just as we all do.

I’ve read about the language of flowers before, so I enjoyed having that incorporated into the stories. A story of love and forgiveness, I recommend it if you enjoy Christian Contemporary romance.

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I loved this unique way of combining 4 short stories that all center around past friends, a tragedy, and the hope of a bright future for four friends and the men who become part of it. The novellas all revolve around the flower business. I enjoyed the different aspects of the industry that each story concentrated upon. My favorite was Tessa and her vision for a flower farm. She made her dream a reality, which is a great message to inspire others to try to do in their own life.

Readers who enjoy authors such as Jan Karon will be happy to have another author like her to read.I received a complimentary copy of the book through the publisher, NetGalley, and Celebrate Lit. All opinions expressed are my own with no obligation to write a positive review.

Jamie, Claire, and Tessa met in the small North Carolina town of Sunrise. As teenagers, they worked at Rose Reid’s flower shop and formed a bond over their love for blooms. But disastrous one night changed everything for them and they all ran from Sunrise and never looked back.

A Year of Flowers is a collection of four novellas that focus on each of the girls and their stories. They’re titled—

💐 An Apology in Bloom (Jamie)
💐 A Bouquet of Dreams (Claire)
💐 A Field of Beauty (Tessa)
💐 A Future in Blossom (👀)

Seven years have passed and they’re all carving their own path in the floral industry. But when each woman receives a letter from Rose Reid telling them to come back to Sunrise, they’re faced with hard choices and questions about forgiveness.

I enjoyed these novellas! The characters were developed well and I loved seeing them get over their various struggles to embrace forgiveness and grow.

There were some heavier themes in one of the stories (that includes infidelity,
manipulation, and inappropriate age-gap), but it lended to the redemption arc of that character.

I’ve really enjoyed every book I’ve read from Suzanne and cannot wait for her next release!

I truly appreciate the gifted copy of this book from the publisher and author. Unfortunately, iit just wasn’t for me. I wasn’t able to get past the first short story. I may very well revisit this book at a later time. I do believe the writing was done well, I just wasn’t in the mood for it.

I loved this book, it was much more than I thought it would ever be. There were really four books inside this one. The three girls had worked together at a florist and were close friends, that is until the flower shop burned down. Each blamed themself for the fire and never returned.
Each girls' story was unique. They were all so different and each had such different talents. The way the author brought them all together in the last book was so perfect. I think anyone who loves flowers would devour this book. I will definitely be recommending this book .
I think anyone who loves flowers or gardening. would devour this book.
Thank you to Net Galley for allowing me to read this book. The opinions are entirely my own.

A story in four parts, one each for Jamie, Tessa, and Claire, and a wrap up.
The three teen girls blossomed when Rose Reid gave them a chance when she hired them in her flower shop in Sunrise, North Carolina. Then an event scattered them for seven years. They never lost their enthusiasm for all things floral and matured a bit in their jobs centered around their love of flowers. Rose summoned them back to Sunrise and gave them a challenge.
The story was beautifully written with a wealth of knowledge about florists and flowers right down to the soil that they are grown in. It chronicled the ups and downs of the three girls, and their romantic encounters and dreams of their future careers. The story brought out of the parallels of growing things and maturing people, showing how God cares for all of His creations. A strong faith message flowed naturally from the characters. The elements of repentance, forgiveness and healing were conveyed within an entertaining story.
*A complimentary copy of this book was obtained from Revell through Interviews and Reviews via NetGalley. I was not required to provide a favorable review. All opinions are mine alone..*

A Year of Flowers is a collection of four novellas by Suzanne Woods Fisher. It includes: An Apology in Bloom, A Bouquet of Dreams, A Field of Beauty, and A Future in Blossom. Each one tells about Jaime, Claire, and Tess in the town of Sunrise, North Carolina. I enjoyed one of their stories that were sweet, inspiring, and heartwarming to read. I thought the whole collection to be a delight to read. I loved it.




I am giving A Year of Flowers five stars. I recommend it for readers who love to read clean contemporary romances. As always, I will be on the look out for more releases from Suzanne Woods Fisher in the future.



I received a paperback copy of Suzanne Woods Fisher's A Year of Flowers from the publisher, but was not required to write a positive review. This review is one hundred percent my own honest opinion.

4.5/5 Stars 🌟
Thank you to the Publisher and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this collection of 4 Novellas that are tied together into one book.

I enjoyed rrading the stories of three high school xriends: Tessa, Jamie and Claire who worked at Rose's flower shop but after a fire destroyed the shop. They were separated when Rose teopems the shop, destiny , faith and love ❤️ bring them back 7 years later with their new partners.

I liked how each story listed the cast of characters and gave flower related terms. I thought that the 4th Novella that brings the friends together again and develops each love story was great. It brought each story full circle.

Although Tessa and Dawson who work together at a worm farm and go from friends to more ( it's clean romance so I wouldn't say lovers)and Chris and Claire who had a lot of animosity towards eachother since Claiee thought Chris choose someone else over her were engaging storirs; Jamie and Liam/ Billy's story really was the icing on the top of the cake story.

Jamie works for Liams flower shop in NYC. He's a mysterious Scottish man that she gets close to but she foesnt feel like she really knows him or his background. After a wedding flower disaster, Jamie takes Rose's offer to return up and flees. Liam isn't ready to let her go though.

This is a Christian romance story so faith in God does play a big part of the story but doesn't distract from the romance and friendship stories