The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst

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🖉Rating: 5/5

🖉Spice: 0/5

🖉Plot: 5/5

🖉Primary Genre: Cozy Fantasy Romance

🖉Blurb: 

New York Times bestselling author Sarah Beth Durst invites you to her new standalone novel nestled on a far-away island brimming with singing flowers, honey cakes, and honeyed love. The hardcover edition features beautiful sprayed edges.

Terlu Perna broke the law because she was lonely. She cast a spell and created a magically sentient spider plant. As punishment, she was turned into a wooden statue and tucked away into an alcove in the North Reading Room of the Great Library of Alyssium.

This should have been the end of her story . . . Yet one day, Terlu wakes in the cold of winter on a nearly-deserted island full of hundreds of magical greenhouses. She’s starving and freezing, and the only other human on the island is a grumpy gardener. To her surprise, he offers Terlu a place to sleep, clean clothes, and freshly baked honey cakes—at least until she’s ready to sail home.

But Terlu can’t return home and doesn’t want to—the greenhouses are a dream come true, each more wondrous than the next. When she learns that the magic that sustains them is failing—causing the death of everything within them—Terlu knows she must help. Even if that means breaking the law again.

This time, though, she isn’t alone. Assisted by the gardener and a sentient rose, Terlu must unravel the secrets of a long-dead sorcerer if she wants to save the island—and have a fresh chance at happiness and love.

Funny, kind, and forgiving, The Enchanted Greenhouse is a story about giving second chances—to others and to yourself.

🖉My Thoughts:

Another clean cozy fantasy romance from Durst. Book 2 in the series does have a bit more of a serious vibe than book 1, the FMC Terlu is Caz's creator, the librarian who spelled him to life. I absolutely love her character. This book is also full of fantastical whimsical things like a massive greenhouse powered by huge magical spells that are failing & Terlu is trying to fix. It was all created by a sorcerer who seemed to kind of lose his marbles before he died and wrote all of his stuff in code to complicate things even more. There's a mystery to solve which I enjoyed and once again this book had heavy themes of family, community and baked goods. Excellence.

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