No one said anything about an attack vine.
Rose Thorn should never be left unsupervised around plants. Potted things tend to die around her as if on principle. But when her great-aunt calls and asks Rose to watch her garden nursery for a few days, Rose can hardly say no. After all, Aunt Lily is the closest thing Rose has to a grandmother—and the only family she has left—so Rose doesn’t mind driving out to her tiny mountain town to look after the place.
Aunt Lily never mentioned anything about an inspection, however.
Rose is taken aback when an agent from an organization she’s never heard of arrives and panics to find Aunt Lily missing. As it turns out, Aunt Lily hasn’t been entirely straight with Rose. She’s not visiting a sick friend—she’s in danger and on the run. She keeps a hidden greenhouse on the property in which she grows highly regulated magical plants. And she’s an elf…as was Rose’s grandfather.
Though stunned to witness magic at work and shocked that no one ever divulged the family secret, Rose refuses to abandon the nursery until her great-aunt is safely home. But as she and the agent, now awkward housemates, try to keep up their cover story and find the missing grower, they realize that whatever led to Aunt Lily’s disappearance might not be the only magical crime in progress.
And while Rose has no green thumb, another talent of hers may be budding…
I received this book to read and review as part of the 2023 BBNYA competition and the BBNYA finalists tours organised by the TWR Tour team. All opinions are my own, unbiased, and honest.
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Book source ~ BBNYA
Hall of Thorns, #1
Ash Fitzsimmons
19 April 2022
Paranormal | Fantasy | UF
187 Pages
My Rating ~ 4 bites and a nibble
Rose Thorn gets a call from her Great-Aunt Lily asking if she can watch over her nursery while she visits a sick friend. Despite having a brown thumb, Rose is happy to help her last living relative. What can go wrong? Oh, my. So much can go wrong.
This is a magical wonder of a story. It flows fast and has great characters. The plot is fantastical and yet grounded. Rose has no idea about magic or that she’s smack in the middle of it, but she gets a decent crash course from Yven, the Agent who shows up to do Lily’s greenhouse inspection and finds a complete novice in her place. There’s magic, danger, mystery, humor, and I mentioned magic, right? What a great world! I look forward to more books in this series.
When not writing, Ash Fitzsimmons is an unrepentant car singer. She is the author of several contemporary fantasy series: Stranger Magics, The Crossing, Hall of Thorns, and its sequel series, The Wild Hunt. A second sequel series, Fortune's Child, will be released in 2024.
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