Title: The Enchanted Greenhouse
Series: Spellshop #2
Author: Sarah Beth Durst
Genre: Romantic Fantasy
Year of publication: 2025
BOOKS IN THE SERIES
The Spellshop – my review
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The Enchanted Greenhouse is a story about giving second chances—to others and to yourself.
BLURB
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.
Oh this book was like a warm hug!
We meet Terlu, the not-sorceress who turned a spider plant into the magical Caz (book 1!). After being tried and punished by being turned into a statue for 6 years, she wakes up on Belde Island…….
The island is full of magical greenhouses, a grumpy gardener named Yarrow, a flying cat, baby dragons, singing flowers, and a talking rose called Lottie!!
Something is going wrong, and the greenhouses are failing and plants start dying. Terlu and Yarrow have to team up to figure out what’s happening and how to stop it.
There was found family, second chances, figuring out who you are and finding love when you least expect it.
The writing is so descriptive and cozy that I completely fell in love with the world. I want to go to Belde Island!
If you love cozy fantasy with plants and magic that gives you the warm fuzzies, then this is the book for you!
⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5
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