Quite a lovely follow up to the first book in this interconnected standalone series! I loved the characters and the plot of this book was cozy but still enagaging. I can't wait to listen (or read) the next one. I enjoyed the narrator of this one a lot, and found their voice to be perfect for all the characters and kept me engaged throughout the whole book! 5 STARS!

This was such a cozy book! For anyone who is just trying out fantasy as a genre, this book is a great way to start. The narrator (Caitlin Davies) makes my heart so happy while reading this story.

This is such a sweet, enchanting story of redemption and love. The found family in this story was top notch, with the sentinel plants, tiny dragons who bring treasures for treats, and the cute flying cat. I loved all the creatures and characters, even the grumpy gardener.
The mystery of the greenhouses failing is intriguing and you end up being hooked trying to figure out what is happening and unraveling the puzzle to save the plants and greenhouses. Add some ghosts haunting the island and family drama, and you end up with a story that hugs your soul and gives you all those warm, cozy feelings you crave!

The ultimate cozy fantasy!!! I'm not usually a big cozy fantasy reader, but I really enjoyed listening to The Enchanted Greenhouse as an audiobook. It’s a great recommendation for students—very PG, lighthearted, and full of charming characters and an easy-to-follow storyline. The protagonist is cute and bubbly, which makes her likeable, but I did find the overall plot and character development a bit too simple. I would’ve loved to see more nuanced growth and subtle distinctions between characters. Still, it's a sweet and gentle read perfect for younger readers or anyone looking for a comforting escape.

Terlu Perna was so lonely, she dared to cast a spell to create a sentient spider plant. and it truly cost her her life. as her punishment, she’s turned into a wooden statue, alive but not alive. she’s not sure how much time has passed, but suddenly she’s flesh again, alone in the middle of snowy forest.

the person who broke her spell was a gardener named Yarrow, a brooding man who prefers the company of plants than humans. he lives alone on the island of Belde with failing magical greenhouses since all his family moving to the capital city.

Terlu was half afraid half wanted to help him fix the failing greenhouses problem, because she’s not a sorcerer and the memory of being a statue still haunts her. but she accidentally awoken a sentient rose named Lotti, and Lotti demanded her to wake all her sentient friends. then something kept happening and she couldn’t just let the failure worsen, could she?

Caz was my favorite character from The Spellshop, so it’s good to know the story of his creator too! Lotti is different from Caz but she’s just as amusing—very sassy and opinionated and knows damn well that she’s a diva.

this is just as magical and cozy as Spellshop, even though personally i prefer Spellshop. for the most part this book only filled with 2 humans, a winged cat, and a band of sentient plants so there’s some points where it bored me a tiiiiiny bit. also i wasn’t really feeling the romance? were they actually in love or was it because there’s no one else? like literally they don’t have any options there. i’m so sorry i’m not a fan of this trope…. but okay. overall I enjoyed this!

i loved how the author made sure Terlu knows Caz’s fate. please give them a reunion!!! doesn’t have to be in a full length novel, maybe just a holiday short story idc!! just as long as they reunite 🥹🥹

also i’m happy that Caitlin Davies narrated this audiobook too! ever since I listened to The Spellshop audiobook, she immediately became one of my favorite narrators. she’s perfect for this kind of story, her narration sounds fun, lovely, and tender💕

I really enjoyed the cozy fantasy that this book had. The imagery that the author used was amazing, so much so that I could picture some of the scenes in my head perfectly. I would 100% recommend this book to someone who is new to the fantasy genre, because it is not heavy and more of a sweet adventurous read. I absolutely adored our main characters Terlu and Yarrow, they had so much depth and growth not only as a couple but also as individuals. One of the best parts of this book is the plants and all their personalities. I found that by reading this book you get to learn about all kinds of plants, and even certain ways to take care of them. Overall, this book was a great cozy read that is amazing for any season and all kinds of readers. I would also highly recommend the audiobook because the narrator does a fantastic job with the characters and keeping your attention for the whole story.

Another perfect cozy fantasy! I loved The Enchanted Greenhouse as much as I loved The Spellshop!

This was a delightful tale that is perfect for if you need an escape from the world! While it’s cozy and wholesome, it’s not without plot and character development, so it really keeps the reader engaged. It touches on topics of finding your place in the world and the importance of community.

I really hope there will be another installment! This was the perfect treat of a book!

I listened to the audiobook for this one, and it was done perfectly! The narrator really fit Terlu well and did a fantastic job with the voices for the sentient plants as well!

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ALC!

A cozy good time!!! These are the only cozy fantasy books that I really connect with. It'll be such a perfect fall read.

This companion to The Spellshop was just as delightful as its predecessor. I'm not a terribly good gardener, but I'm sure I'd learn quickly if I, liek Terlu and Yarrow, had to save some magical greenhouses on the island of Beld! Terlu is a great heroine -- sweet, loving, optimistic, and funny. She's plump and chatty and a bit anxious, but never afraid to do the right thing to help others, be they human or plant. We get a new group (crop? haha) of sentient plants, and while not as hilarious or learned as Caz the spider plant in The Spellshop, they are all enjoyable in their own right. This story is full of second chances and hope for building a better future. Very good narration by Caitlin Davies. I especially liked her take on Dendy, the old and wise philodendron.

Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for an advanced copy of this charming audiobook.

𝐀𝐑𝐂: Thank you, NetGalley, for the opportunity to read/listen to this book early.
𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - This was such a cute and easy listen!
𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐞: K-I-S-S-I-N-G with implementation of something more
𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞:
𝐆𝐨𝐚𝐥: 59/12

This was such a fun and easy listen. I was able to get an early listen through NetGalley, and I want to express my sincere gratitude! I loved the first one so much, and this one did not disappoint! I loved that they were able to reference the characters from the first book in this one a couple of times.

This one is a little more on the sad side from the aspect of the FMC due to her past, but I love that she can work through it and continue to live her life to the fullest.

I don’t know if there is another book in this series, but if there is, you can bet that I will be reading it!

This book has:
🌑 Cozy fantasy
🌑 talking plants
🌑 quite island life

This was a warm, whimsical escape that hit all the cozy notes I needed. The worldbuilding felt lush yet grounded, and I loved how magic wove through everyday moments. The characters were charming, the pacing easy, and the story satisfying without being too heavy. It was the perfect in-between read; enough mystery and magic to hold my attention, but soothing in its tone. I really enjoyed this installment and would love to see a third book in this world. A comforting read I’ll definitely recommend to cozy fantasy lovers.

This is very much a slow, cozy, cottagecore fantasy and I loved it. I found myself feeling warm and comfy reading this and Sarah Beth Durst is so descriptive and I could picture myself in the enchanted greenhouses. The greenhouses are by far my favorite part of the book with their singing plants, magical tiny dragons and other special creatures. I wish I could just close my eyes and wander through them forever.

The romance is there, it's a quick burn but it's not spicy. It is sweet, cute and has you swooning for them. I love that they experiences hurdles and maintained their peaceful connection.

I just loved this and how it made me feel. If you want a relaxing, soothing world that will sweep you away into a peaceful bliss-- this is it.

The Enchanted Greenhouse is a cozy fantasy set in the same world as the Spellshop. Sarah Beth Durst does an amazing job of using imagery to create a unique fantasy world. I am begging someone to adapt these books into a visual art form, because I fear my imagination does not do this book justice.

Narration performed by Caitlin Davies was very well done.

I received an ALC from Macmillan Audio via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was wonderful. I was scared that this one would not live up to The Spell Shop but in my opinion that was just as magical and cozy. I loved our main character Terlu. She was a fun character to follow and she reminded me of Amy Adams in Enchanted and Anna from Frozen wrapped up into a studious librarian. She was a delight. Our male lead Yarrow was an introverted Kristoff from Frozen with a love for plants and baking. I enjoyed the Greenhouse setting and all the entertaining sentient plants and animals we get to meet. There is also a nice tie end with the Spell Shop at the end so that was nice. Overall, keep these books coming! I would love to get a book from Head Librarian Rijes Velk POV. As with all of these books I am left hungry for the delicious food and maybe a plant baby or two is in my future.

I received an ARC of this audiobook via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Lottie is my spirit plant if I had one. Another cozy world that was so vivid in my mind. I love a good sunshine/grumpy trope. The audio narrator was amazing.

3.75 ⭐️ This ALC gave me the unique experience of being filled with joy for the first 70% and then becoming SO PEEVED during the rest of it.

What I loved:

- I was immediately invested in Terlu’s character. She literally brought a plant to life because she was so lonely, and they punished her by trapping her in a statue. They basically decided to torture her by casting her into eternal loneliness. A backstory doesn’t get more compelling than that.
- Yarrow aka the grumpy to Terlu’s sunshine. But also a domestic man who loves taking care of his plants and feeding his animal buddies??? The biggest thing I got from this book is that I need to find a man who will bake me honey cake.
- Every single being in those enchanted greenhouses. Without spoiling too much, it was a party and I need to go back. We got Caz and Meep in The Spellshop, and in this one we got SO MUCH MORE

What upset me:

- Sarah Beth Durst hit us with the mid-plot CRISIS at the 60% mark, but from there, the story gets pretty convoluted (in my opinion). We know right off the bat that Terlu’s big conflict is figuring out how to fix the magical greenhouses, but at 90%, we still have no idea how she’s going to do it. What we get from 60-90% is a series of extra mushy romance developments and the emergence of some aggravating characters that Yarrow is meant to reconcile with.
- To be clear, I don’t think this was a case of bad writing. If anything, the problem is that I am an impatient person, so I completely lost my patience during that last third. The romance was becoming too much while the issue of the malfunctioning greenhouses didn’t seem to be going anywhere. Terlu’s and Yarrow’s development in overcoming their loneliness relied on reconciliation with their family, but I got so triggered by Yarrow’s family. Like, geez, if I were Yarrow, I wouldn’t have reached out to them either.
- Yarrow’s character became a bit confusing to me. He’s as grumpy as grumpy can get, and this is made even more clear when his family shows up. This makes his gentleness with Terlu almost uncharacteristic of him. How can he be so kind and caring to one person when he clearly still bears such unrelenting resentment? I’m still trying to wrap my head around it.
- ^ And because of this, the romance started to feel like too much. Yes, this is a cozy romantic fantasy. Yes, the romance is uniquely focused on healing. But there was just something about it that got a little too cozy, like there was too much “you’re amazing; you got this” and not enough “let’s figure out this greenhouse problem.” The fact that most of the problem-solving happened in the last 5% kind of proves my point.

Overall, it felt like Sarah Beth Durst knew The Spellshop was a hit and needed to up the ante with The Enchanted Greenhouse. Regarding the fantastical cozy atmosphere and the silly gaggle of sentient plants you’ll meet in this book, she certainly did just that. This story made a stronger emotional impact compared to The Spellshop, and I actually did enjoy it more overall. However, I felt that this book lacked some cohesion, and the character relationships didn’t quite hit the mark for me. Regardless, if you’re looking for a healing romance, this is one you need to pick up.

Thanks so much to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for this ALC!

The worldbuilding of The Enchanted Greenhouse is great. All the greenhouses are connected and have the perfect biome for different types of plants, both real and fantasy. Access to every kind of fruits and vegetables year-round also results in a lot of delicious food descriptions. A librarian self-teaching herself magic is just as enjoyable as it was in The Spellshop.

Unfortunately the characters don't especially interest me. Terlu is the "sunshine" archetype, keeping up a steady stream of dialogue and internal thoughts throughout. Yarrow is the "grumpy" archetype, although he does produce all the yummy food so I like him better. There's also a high-strung sentient flower whose voice made me wish I had the ebook instead.

Great for enjoyers of the grumpy-sunshine dynamic, not so much for the rest of us.

Thank you Netgalley for the audio ARC.

What a wonderful cozy book just like The Spellshop, I loved the different greenhouses and the fact that there's more sentient plants. I love the connection between the books and I'm hoping there's another one?

I am a Sarah Beth Durst fan for LIFE! Earlier this year I finally read The Spellshop. I was SO mad at myself for waiting so long. I absolutely adored it. From the start it warmed my heart and I was eager to hit play on the audiobook e very day. The Enchanted Greenhouse was no different.

I was beyond thrilled to be back in this world and now getting to meet the emphasis Terlu Perna. After hearing so much about her from Caz, it felt like meeting a celeb when I started reading. I loved hearing her story of creating Caz, the consequences, and how she ended up awake and on a far-away island. In a time in our world where folks aren't being so nice, it brought me so much joy to read a character who was kind, understanding, empathetic, and truly GOOD. Her relationship with Yarrow was so sweet and her desire to help any and everyone she came across was beautiful.

🎧I LOVED THE AUDIOBOOK. Truly. Caitlin Davies is one of my new favorite narrators ever. I loved her in The Spellshop and loved her even more in The Enchanted Greenhouse. Gimme anything she narrates. Seriously.

Read if you like:
-Happiness and joy and understanding and empathy
-Gardening
-Talking plants
-Found family
-Spells/magic
-Tiny dragons and sea turtles
-Coziness

I already can't wait for Sarah's next book and am PRAYING we get a reunion between Terlu and Caz. The ending had me SOBBING.

Thank you to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the alc!

**𝑨𝑹𝑪 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘** 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝑺𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒉 𝑩𝒆𝒕𝒉 𝑫𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒕

Release Date: July 15, 2025

4⭐️1.5🌶

Terlu Perna is the primary librarian in the North Reading Room of the Great Library of Alyssium. Until she casts a spell and turns a spider plant sentient. Of course, this is against the law, but she only wanted someone to talk do.

The head Sorcerers decide as her punishment they will turn her into a statue and place her in the library, to serve as a warning to all for the dangers of using magic or spells without being a trained sorcerer.

When Terlu wakes up (which she never thought she would), she finds herself in a small town of greenhouses in the presence of one lone overwhelmed gardener. She finds out that she was sent here in the hopes that she could figure out a way to reanimate all the plants and greenhouses that have been magically sent into dormancy or death.

With the help of her young gardener and a sentient rose, Terlu embarks on a quest to save all the plants and greenhouses in this magical place.

Themes/Tropes:

🍁Cottagecore
🍁Cozy Fantasy
🍁Paranormal Romance
🍁Fantasy Romance
🍁Practical Magic Vibes

TW:

✨Statue-a-fying
✨Too much cozy