I had a fun time reading this. I became really invested in the characters and loved seeing their journey together. I am very introverted so I admit that the FMC's constant talking was a bit much for me. I would have been running for the hills if she did that to me even though she didn't mean any harm. But I can understand why she was so talkative and desperate for interaction so I couldn't hold it against her.

The Enchanted Greenhouse is one of those rare books that can easily be picked up solely because of the gorgeous cover. Like The Spellshop before it, it contains a wonderfully charming story within. The genre is Cottagecore, which encompasses a connection to nature, simple living, and relaxing hobbies such as gardening, baking, and long walks.

The story begins when former librarian Terlu awakens in a strange place several years after being turned into a statue, which was her punishment for having used magic. Not knowing where she is, she goes searching for anyone who can explain what happened. To her surprise only one other person is on this island with hundreds of greenhouses. Yarrow is the grumpy gardener who stayed behind on the island to tend to the plants and gardens. Many of the greenhouses are failing, killing everything inside. Terlu was sent to Yarrow in hopes that she can help prevent other greenhouses from failing- even if it means learning to cast spells that she was once forbidden to do.

I listened to the audiobook version of this story narrated by Caitlin Davies, who performed amazingly. Trust me, The Enchanted Greenhouse is truly delightful and you won't regret picking it up!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ | Cozy, Sweet, and Even Better Than the First!

I absolutely loved The Enchanted Greenhouse! Both books in the series are heartwarming and cozy, but this one really stood out for me. It had all the charm and magic I hoped for, with even more depth and warmth than the first. The setting is beautiful, the characters feel like old friends, and it’s just one of those feel-good books that leaves you smiling. A perfect escape when you need something comforting and uplifting. Can’t wait to see where the series goes next!

Great easy read. This book was a wonderful take from another perspective from the first book. Very enjoyable laidback vibe.

Sarah Beth Durst is the definition of cozy fantasy. Each of her books in this series were like curling up in a warm blanket with a cup of coffee and a book. This one was better than the first.

Sarah Beth Durst gives us the story of Terlu Perna in The Enchanted Greenhouse!

I have been waiting to know what happened to Terlu since Caz and Kiela mourned her in The Spellshop. In The Enchanted Greenhouse, Durst opens with Terlu waking up in a freezing forest where she had just been de-statue-fied. Terlu is still suffering PTSD from her time as a statue and the loneliness of the Great Library. The magic greenhouses on the island are failing, and thus Terlu must figure out how (or if) she can help the cute gardener.

I love these books. Durst has crafted a wonderfully cozy setting, populated by complex characters who just want to be accepted. Also, there is talking plants.

I love this cozy world.
Yarrow and Terlu are precious
Lottie has never done anything wrong in her life

If you like:

Talking plants
Pack full of second chance
Sweet romance
Finding oneself
Baker & Gardener themes
Lots of magic

I just can't believe that I was able to get my hands on this early. I have pre-ordered this book and was fully prepared to wait for this to come out, but when I saw it pop up on netgalley I just had to request it. Once again I was so shocked that little ol me was approved. Big thank you to all who were involve in that process.

What can I say, Sarah has done it again! So where can I get an Enchanted Greenhouse and a gardener / baker? I will have to say Spellshop is probably my favorite out of the two so far but this book was still so cute!! The last book gave me summer vibes, this one gives me winter. It was a bit deeper than I was expecting from a cozy read. I hope we get more from this world!

Sarah if you write it I will read it!

A fun, Cozy mystery that keeps you reading past your bedtime! This Book was so charming and well written it was very easy to read in one day!

This is such a great cozy fantasy!
I loved the first book of this series and loved how the heart of this carried on beautifully here but with someone elses story, and i definitely didnt expect it to be Cas’s creator but someone else bit closer to Baltree
Overall, i enjoyed it, took one star off just because of the MMC’s grudge holding and the refusal from him to let it go and welcome his family back😄

Thank you so much to NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for the early audiobook of this incredible adventure!! I absolutely adored the Spellshop and couldn’t wait to read this. It has been a rough couple months for reading for me and this completely took me out of my slump. I have never wanted to jump directly into a book so bad. To visit all the magical greenhouses and talk to plants?? The dream.

I adored the complexity this book offered: the characters, the desire to fix a problem but recognizing there isn’t a solution, the fact that maybe the problem is rooted in trauma that cannot be undone. These are all very complex things that you don’t really find in cozy fantasy and I really admired how Durst tackled them. I loved Caitlin’s voice and her acting is just superb. I loved how all the plants had different characteristics and loved the unique way that Durst writes them. Her writing is simple yet conveys such beautiful stories. I cannot wait to read whatever she writes next!! This book feels like a big warm hug!

Unfortunately I believe this is not the book for me. Terlu was a very frustrating protagonist. She repeated herself constantly and the insta lust she felt for Yarrow was shallow and boring. The greenhouse descriptions felts overly long and detailed, especially at the beginning when it first begins. It did not hook me at all. The narrator herself was good, no issues with her audio performance.

I can't believe I was able to go back to this world. This is such a beautiful world. Where people can be any color and anything can really happen.

In this book we follow the life of Terlu Perna from the Great Library of Alyssium after she breaks the law. She's punished by being turned into a wooden statue and place in the North Reading Room and used as a warning to all new Librarians as they come through. She never expected to be woken up in a cold winter island but there is basically no other person here with her but a lonely gardener who reached out for help with his islands magical greenhouses. All he got was a wooden statue and a spell from the Great Library of Alyssium.

With everything that is needed safe the greenhouses sentient plants and other magical creatures in the greenhouses, Terlu is worried. She's been punished for unlawful magical use but was sent to help by using magic. Unsure of it all, Terlu feels the need to help and enjoys helping only if it's kept under wraps. She learns more about the original magician who created the lovely home he made and why. It's warm, heartfelt and sad rolled into one. He had a family of gardeners who loved the greenhouses that he sent away. Yarrow, the gardener who woke her, family who left him and he's hurt as he felt this is their home and all was abandoned by his family including himself.

Filled with second chances and learning to accept help from others. That life changes and sometimes family with be there for you. This cozy fantasy is a definite must read and I can't wait for more from this world. They make you feel everything and ended with happy tears for me!

Quote: “If you’re hurt, you’re hurt; it doesn’t matter if anyone else thinks you have a good enough reason. Pain doesn’t require approval.”

Thank you to @netgalley & macmillan audio for the advanced listener copy.

I absolutely LOVED The Spellshop, so when I saw that this one was up to request on Netgalley, I HAD to request it. I loved every second of this audiobook. It was such a sweet, cozy fantasy.

In The Enchanted Greenhouse, we follow Terlu who was turned into a statue after having cast a spell on a spider plant. This book gave me all the good cozy feels. All the while Terlu learns to love herself as she is. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a cozy fantasy & wants a feel good story about second chances.

The Enchanted Greenhouse is a follow up to The Spellshop. I loved The Spellshop and The Enchanted Greenhouse didn't disappoint. This book had me laughing, crying tears of joy, and kicking my feet with the biggest smile on my face. The FMC and MMC were adorable and sweet while both coming to grips with their tragic pasts. There's more sentient plants, a whole hoard of them even. And the ending. OH the ending!! I hope Sarah keeps us in this world because I will never get enough of it.

Terlu Perna broke the law out of loneliness. Her punishment was swift: transformed into a wooden statue and hidden away in an alcove of the North Reading Room in the Great Library of Alyssium. This should have been the end of her story…

Terlu awkens on an island with a series of mysterious greenhouses, uncertain of where she is or how long it has been since her trial. There she meets the grumpy to her sunshine, a lone gardener left behind to take care of the failing enchanted greenhouses. Terlu sets out to save the place where she woke up, regardless of the cost.

This book absolutely was not for me… I think I might need a little more out of my cozy fantasy. Terlu as a character was hard to read, and I even though there was a first person perspective I didn’t feel like I really got to know her. I felt her perspective only lent to sharing her anxieties and not her personality.

I had a difficult time getting through this book as very little happens and I didn’t really feel any build up for the romance. I found myself enjoying the characters and setting in the last 20% of the book because there is a little bit more going on. I wish the author had spent more time on the characterization or world-building in the first three quarters of the book. There was a lot of potential to get to know some of the peripheral characters but I feel like she barely touched on them or the greater world around the island.

This book is for:
-Slow cozy fantasy lovers
-Lovers of copious descriptions of food
-Very slow burn romance with no steam

This is my first read of this author's work (even though I have one of her books on my physical TBR). This book is set in the same world as her others, but works as a stand-alone. I received an audio copy and really loved the narrator.

This is a cozy fantasy with a little slow-burning closed-door romance thrown in. Super cute storyline filled with talking plants, a lonely woman and a grumpy gardener.

Highly recommend if you're looking for a little escape.

If you are looking for a wonderfully written cozy fantasy, look no farther. While this is a sequel, you can very much read this one without having read the first. The Enchanted Greenhouse follows a young librarian when she is sentenced to spend time as a statue due to improper magic use. After serving a few years as a statue she finally finds herself free in a different island than where she originated from. Now that she is awake, she’s rushing to help the man who lives on the island to help save the greenhouses and in turn his life and island.

I was very thankful to be able to listen to the audio arc ahead of release. If you loved the narrator of the first book, you are in luck. She’s back! The narrator’s performance is an amazing addition to the novel!

The narrator kept me pulled into the story the whole time.

This story is out of my normal genre, but I liked this story. The author created this magical world within the greenhouses and I enjoyed listening to how it was all connected through a spell. The characters were interesting and really added to the story.

The romance aspect of the story didn't feel necessary and didn't work for me. The story could have had the same outcome without her falling in love and if they had been friends.

I was drawn to this story after hearing reviews for The Spell Shop, which I haven't read yet, but plan to. By listening to The Enchanted Greenhouse I don't think I missed information that would have been in The Spell Shop. The Enchanted Green house is a standalone.

Thank you MacMillan Audio and NetGalley for the ALC.

This cozy fantasy was a beautifully written story that follows Terlu Perna (who, if you read “The Spellshop” is the librarian who created Caz, the sentient spider plant). While this is a stand alone novel, there are nods to “The Spellshop” that are subtle but made me quite happy because this world that is created for these stories is one that I can throw myself into and get lost, in a good way.

The Enchanted Greenhouse starts with Terlu awakening from her recent punishment (not deserved) of being turned into a statue because of her use of “illegal” magic. She awakens on a seemingly deserted island filled with empty greenhouses and soon stumbles upon a grumpy gardener, Yarrow, who is tending to the grounds. While the two get acquainted with each other they have some interesting adventures along the way that include a spunky flying cat, talking plants, mythical creatures, and magic. Along the way we also see the very slow-burn romance form that we all know was inevitable.

4.25 stars is my rating for this book, and the reasoning is because “The Spellshop” was a solid 5 stars and I feel like while this was a great read, it isn’t on the same rating level as it’s companion novel. This is a great book to escape into if you are a fan of cozy fantasy with a side of romance. “The Enchanted Greenhouse” Will give you all the warm fuzzies, bring random smiles to your face and leave you wanting more stories from this magical world.
Thank you NetGalley and Sarah Beth Durst for the opportunity to review this beautiful story that I received as an ALC.