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A Rose Among Thorns by Ash Fitzsimmons

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Book Details

Length: 179 pages

Genre: Fantasy

Age Category: Adult

Date Published: 19 April 2022

Amazon Link: https://a.co/d/g3AxSZc (Canada)

https://a.co/d/hfOLGoP (USA)

https://amzn.eu/d/bzKvoKP (UK)

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60845864

The StoryGraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/6f337d61-54a4-477c-9668-91033e9c71aa 

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…

Author Bio

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. You can find her at ashfitzsimmons.com.

My Review I totally identified with our main character Rose, especially with not being able to identify one plant from another, I’m totally a plant killer, so working in a nursery would be a disaster!! Covering for her aunt Rose is in charge of this nursery and omg we soon find out it’s no ordinary nursery, it’s magical and an Agent comes round and fills Rose in. I loved the relationships and how they play out and the plot was thoroughly engaging and addictive to read through. Some books can be heavy to read at times and you need an antidote, and this is exactly that antidote, it’s a warming tale of mystery and magic, and takes you on a spell binding journey. A must read on holidays and long trips in the car, it’s perfect.