The Enchanted Greenhouse Hardcover – 15 July 2025

This author is my absolute favourite! The quality of this book and her others are unbelievable. I like the size of the book, I love the story line and I love the art work.I would recommend reading The Spell Shop first as it gives you a good insight to this book.Anyone who loves a good fantasy, whimsy magical book this is for you.

The follow up cozy fantasy to The Spellshop, which gives you all the feels. Terlu Perna wakes up, after being a statue for many years, as a punishment for creating the sentient spider plant, Caz. Terla never expected to be released and finds herself on the deserted Island of Belde with only the grumpy and unhelpful gardener, Yarrow, as company. Plus, many beautiful, enchanted greenhouses. 🏡👨‍🌾Yarrow reluctantly helps with food and shelter, then as Terlu Perna starts to explore she accidentally wakes up Lotti, a sentient miniature rose. This leads to more exploration and some drama from failing greenhouse magic, before Terlu agrees to try to help with illegal magic to try and save the plant life from dying. 📚 🍰This book is full of beautiful words, phrasing and description. Two of my favourites:Circling it were dragonflies with sparkling diamond-like bodies and golden wings. They danced together in pairs and trios in a musicless promenade.It smelled like a summer forest and was far cooler than the prior room, with fans that rotated overhead instead of a miniature sun. Even the colors were softer and more restful: soft, almost furry green in every direction.This story is like your favourite chocolate bar, making you feel all warm and gooey inside. We move from singing plants and flowers, to miniature dragons, a winged cat, sentient talking plants and even a ghost. The imagination boggles, but all brings emotions of hope, despite the up and downs as we go along. 🎵We fall in love with Terlu and start to believe in second chances as she finds her place in the world. As Terlu finds herself she also helps Yarrow move forward from trauma from his past and together they fight for a better future for Belde. ❤️This lovely novel includes magic, coziness, cuteness, hope, friendship and romance, together with a puzzle and some drama. Such a beautifully worded book, that leaves you wanting more. Well recommended! 😊Thank you to Netgalley, Pan Macmillan and Sarah Beth Durst for access to the ARC.

4.5Again the author created a perfect world where i would go in a heartbeat with a one way ticket!I adored the greenhouses, they are a dream i didn't know i had, but now they'll forever be in my head.I don't think i loved the couple as much as the Spellshop one, too much low self worth for my liking, and the romance was much more in your face, but dang, between mini dragons and all the sentient plants, it was a fun read.Cosy, a bit silly, just lovely.

A book filled with second chances and hope, the perfect feel good cozy fantasy that is an interconnected standalone set in the same world as Sarah’s book The Spellshop. I fell in love with The Spellshop when I read it last year so I couldn’t wait to get my hands on Sarah’s next book featuring an enchanted greenhouse in trouble, a winged cat, a sassy sentient rose sidekick and the duo of a lonely librarian and reclusive gardener who must work together to save it. The idea around an enchanted greenhouse had my interest fully piqued, but Sarah blew all of my expectations out of the water. The magic surrounding the greenhouse is so unique with each connected biomes having an environment entirely of its own, we get the absolute pleasure of exploring so many of them as we accompany Terlu and Yarrow on their journey. This book was absolutely next level adorable, with both of the characters being so out of practice with interacting with others we watch them grow and develop, and eventually finding friendship and something more in one another. With magic permeating the heart of this story, you will become lost amongst the page filled with plants, mystery and love.We begin this story with Terlu Perna, a librarian who in her loneliness broke the law, casting a spell to create a friend in the form of a magically sentient spider plant. In punishment for her actions, not everyone seeing them as a crime Terlu is turned to wood, to be positioned as a statue in the Great Library of Alyssium to act as a warning to others. When Terlu finally wakes from her punishment nearly six years later, she finds herself in the middle of a snow storm, freezing and confused Terlu stumbles upon a magical greenhouse. Quickly realising that the island she is on appears deserted Terlu searches for someone, anyone, this is where she comes across the only other human on the island, a grumpy and somewhat sweet gardener, Yarrow. Yarrow offers Terlu shelter, fresh clothes and food, everything she needs until she is ready to sail home. However, Terlu knows after everything she has done she can’t return home and in her shame she doesn’t want to. Then when she learns that the magical greenhouses and slowly failing killing all the plants within them, Terlu wants to stay and help Yarrow in any way that she can including breaking the law once more if that is what it takes. With the help of her grumpy Gardner, a winged cat and sentient rose they must work together to uncover the spell to save the greenhouses and its inhabitants, while also having a second chance at love and happiness along the way.The concept of this book with an island filled with magical greenhouses, each one filled with plants from all over acting as a failsafe should any of them become extinct. Alongside this there are greenhouses filled with more whimsical magic designed to amaze and create wonder. Every single greenhouse is completely unique from the next, every door passed through leading us to see something completely new and magical. Sarah takes the time to describe each environment in such beautiful detail that it makes you feel like you are right there, you can feel the warmth on your skin, breath the humidity of the hair, smelling the array of flowers and plants. There are puzzles to solve and a mystery at the heart of it all, to try and save the failing magic that powers the greenhouses and keeps everything within it thriving. This mystery provides a common thread throughout the story, with the growing relationships between the characters and all of the creatures we encounter flowing around this. I was hooked page to page in this book, needing to know what was going to happen next and unravelling the mystery behind the sorcerer and the magical greenhouses failing one by one.Terlu is so sweet, constantly thinking she is too much for everyone around her, but actually she is too good for the world, always trying to help and look out for others. Having been trapped as a wooden statue for so long she is so lonely, but that doesn’t transfer as resentment to those around her, always choosing to give been the benefit of the doubt. I loved how her story links into The Spellshop, it provides you a focal point for the story and gives some much needed answers about the wooden statue in the library. Yarrow is by far my favourite character, I respect his healthy love for plants, let’s be real sometimes they are easier to be around than people. He has a certain level of vulnerability about him that he keeps behind sturdy walls, walls that Terlu slowly breaks down without realising it, providing Yarrow it’s something he hasn’t had in a long time, hope. Also, an MMC that cooks his feelings and provides for the FMC is one I will also be an absolute fan of, it provides a next level amount of adorability. I adored watching as these two become so important to one another as they work to save the greenhouses and the plants and creatures that reside inside them. They have the most gorgeous sweet slowly developing romance that is so beautifully innocent, it is an absolute joy to read and was one of my favourite parts of the story. Lotti is the firecracker resurrection plant that brings the banter and drama to this story, she has the perfect level of sass to balance out our other two main characters. Having the other sentient plants be a big part of the story imparts somewhat of a found family vibe to the story especially as they all work together.With this book being a standalone the story felt incredibly well rounded and the HEA was perfect, but I am incredibly excited to read what Sarah writes next, definitely hoping that she chooses to continue writing stories set in the same world. I wholeheartedly recommend this book if you’re looking for a new cozy fantasy filled with the sweetest budding romance, magical greenhouses, mystery, sentient plants, amazing food and a winged cat.