The Faraway Inn by Sarah Beth Durst

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🖉Rating: 5/5

🖉Spice: 0/5

🖉Plot: 5/5

🖉Primary Genre: YA Cozy Fantasy

🖉Blurb: 

After a devastating heartbreak, a teen girl decides to spend her summer helping her eccentric great aunt manage her quaint Vermont inn--but this fixer-upper is hiding a magical secret--in this cozy and irresistable new fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop.

Sixteen-year-old Calisa is desperate for a change of scenery after her lying ex ruins her perfect Brooklyn summer. When her parents suggest she head to rural Vermont to help her great-aunt run her cozy bed and breakfast for a few months, she jumps at the chance.

But when Calisa arrives at the B&B, she's shocked to find a rundown inn with only a handful of guests. And to make matters worse, upon meeting with her great-aunt it quickly becomes clear that Calisa was not invited. Auntie Zee is determined to keep anyone from messing with her beloved inn…even if it is clear she needs the help.

To earn her keep, Calisa sets to work fixing up the inn, enlisting extra help from the groundskeeper's (handsome) son. But the longer she stays, the more it becomes evident that there is something strange about the B&B—and its residents. Something almost…otherworldly.

The inn is keeping a magical secret—but to protect the place she's come to love, Calisa must unravel the truth of it, and her aunt, before it's too late.

🖉My Thoughts:

I have yet to read a Sarah Beth Durst Book until this title, even though I have a couple on my book shelf. Well let me tell you what, I will be reading them ALL after this one. This story is quite literally and figuratively magical. You'll be swept up into the story immediately and enchanted by the characters AND the inn that the story is set in. The characters are endearing, relatable and quirky, the setting is immersive and the magic system is quite unique. While this is a book about fantastical characters and witches who can open the doors to their worlds, it's low stakes and cozy. There's a dash of YA romance that's very cute and I just absolutely loved the ending as well. While this is a YA fantasy, I don't feel as though this is out of the wheelhouse of any adult fantasy reader. If you like the Legends and Lattes books like I do, I imagine you'll enjoy this read. It's enticed me to pick up Sarah's other books now that I'm back on my fantasy kick.

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