The Magical Cheese Emporium

Spellshop #4

by Sarah Beth Durst

The Magical Cheese Emporium by Sarah Beth Durst is the fourth magical standalone adventure in the New York Times bestselling series that started with The Spellshop.

When Eloren joined the revolution against the empire, she didn’t expect to lose everything—her job, her purpose, and her closest friend.

After the Great Library burned down and her position as Assistant Librarian burned down with it, she had no other choice but to return to the only home that will have her grandmother’s shop.

Now, Eloren is stuck at the Magical Cheese Emporium in the remote island town of Dew, struggling to become the cheesemonger heiress she never wanted to be. But the unicorns won't let her milk them, there’s a monster in the cheese caves, and Eloren is more into books than cheese. The only good thing about coming home is reuniting with Garyn, the childhood friend and clever inventor who, at some point, got a whole lot taller.

When Dew’s governor imposes impossible taxes on small business owners like her grandmother, Eloren knows one she didn’t take down the emperor just so someone else could exploit good people.

Eloren, Garyn, a mouse made of cheese, and Garyn’s (mostly) helpful contraptions set off to rescue the cheese emporium and all the other local businesses. And in saving her community, Eloren might finally agree to call it home.

The Magical Cheese Emporium is a fantasy romance about the places that tell you you’re home when everything burns down and daring to see old friends with new eyes. Prepare for hard work, sparkly dreams, and lots of magical cheese.


Standalone romance
Best friends to lovers
Magical creatures
Librarian x engineer

Bramble books by Sarah Beth Durst

The Spellshop series
The Spellshop
The Enchanted Greenhouse
Sea of Charms
The Magical Cheese Emporium

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Genres: Fantasy, Cozy Fantasy, Cozy, Romance, Romantasy, Fiction, Adult

416 pages, Kindle Edition

Expected publication January 19, 2027

About the author

Sarah Beth Durst is the New York Times bestselling author of over twenty-five books for adults, teens, and kids, including cozy fantasy The Spellshop. She's been awarded an American Library Association Alex Award, as well as a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Several of her books have been optioned for film/television, including Drink Slay Love, which was made into a TV movie and was a question on Jeopardy! She lives in Stony Brook, New York, with her husband, her children, and her ill-mannered cat. Visit her at sarahbethdurst.com.

Reviews

[Miranda Reads]

This title kills me. Cannot wait for it to be released!!

[Ricarda]

Kinda sounds like an April fools joke, but also like just the thing I need in my life.

[Soft Nectarine ~]

Couldn’t be more obsessed with everything that is this book 🧀 “They were always meant to brie.”

I CAN’T CONTAIN MY EXCITEMENT!!! The only thing I love more than romance is CHEESE🧀🧡 and what do you mean they use unicorn milk for their magical cheeses!!

about finding home & purpose

[mel · Rating 5 out of 5]

there were tears in my eyes as i got this arc. this series means the WORLD to me!!!

this book expanded the world of the spellshop in the most precious way possible—with political drama, cozy creatures, the sweetest romance, and, of course, cheese. i don’t even like cheese and yet i found myself enjoying every second of reading about the cheesemaking process (a testament to sarah beth durst’s power).

there’s a baby sentient spider plant (yes—related to THAT spider plant), a sentient cheese mouse (a mouse made of cheese, naturally), so many sparkling unicorns, and a mysterious cave-dwelling creature made of stories. genuinely so whimsical and so so perfect.

five stars!!!!!

[Maria]

Note to self: Remember to prepare a cheese platter before starting this book.

[Mimi Schweid]

Am I once again in my Sarah Beth Durst era? It would seem so!!!

Each book in this world just fleshes out the universe more and makes me want a magical cat with wings and a talking plant. Sea of Charms was precious. I can't wait to get back to Dew and see how adorable this book is!!

[Genevieve (GenLikesToRead)]

A book based on a magical cheese emporium is kind of iconic

[Brooke]

A MAGICAL WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

MY DREAMS HAVE COME TRUE😆🙌

[Rachel Alexander · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was such a great conclusion (I think?) to this series. It was so heartfelt and whimsical, but was emotionally moving at the same time. At the heart of this book is the power of stories and the importance of sharing them with other people. I think that we as readers share this same passion. Why else do we read except to experience the stories of other—sometimes fictional—people and places?

I am so happy that I was able to download this ARC. Thank you to the publisher and Edelweiss. How am I supposed to wait until January to own this??

[Chloë [at the cottage]]

With a title like this, how can I NOT be excited!!

Book 1: The Spellshop - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Book 2: The Enchanted Greenhouse - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Book 3: Sea of Charms - TBD
Book 4: The Magical Cheese Emporium - TBD

[ZINNIA ☾⋆⁺₊✧]

this title is sending me lmaooo. I've really enjoyed the previous works in this series so we shall see <3

[Jennybeast · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sitting firmly in the nexus of all my professional and nerd interests, this book has it all -- librarians, printing, bookbinding, cheesemaking and mongering, magic, trauma recovery, transparency in government, romance and some delightfully stabby new side characters. I love the Midnight Knitters, the inventions, the quest for new and ridiculous sources of magical milk for cheesemaking. I love the characters and their challenges and the ways they grow and heal and eventually triumph. The Spellshop books remain as the very best in cozy reading, and an absolutely reliable balm to my soul.

Advanced Readers' Copy provided by Edelweiss.

TL:DR for those who are interested, my extra picky nerd notes, which alas were too late to change before publication. SBD was extremely gracious about this feedback.

In case you were wondering, Archivists and Conservators are 2 totally different jobs — totally possible to be both, but archivists don’t bind books as part of their jobs: they catalogue and arrange collections. Book conservators bind books.

Bookbinding by hand: Sew, then Glue, always. Or do a non adhesive binding and just sew, but it's always sew first.
Btw, I have a lot of opinions on glue and this book handled that subject well.

Western style Printing ink is generally not water soluble — it’s almost all linseed oil or rapeseed or soy based, so the clean up isn’t by washing in a sink -- you either need to loosen it with more oil and wipe it up or use a solvent to remove it. I laughed so hard at the image of pouring the ink into a bowl — horrifying! What a horrifying sticky mess!! -- the viscosity means that you use a knife to spread a small amount on a non-porous surface and then either dab it onto printers' balls or roll it onto a brayer (roller) and transfer it to the type that way. I love the iteration of ideas that Garyn works through — 5 stars for inventing printing in a way that doesn’t make me cry.

If you do want to know about water soluble printing ink with historical precedent, look into Mokuhanga -- Japanese style woodblock printing. I don't think that type of ink would work very well in the type of printing process the book describes, because it dries out too quickly. The reason oil base works so well is that you have time to ink and print and ink and print for several hours before it dries out and ruins the type.

Also, all the praise for not attempting any solution to papermaking outside of import. It’s such a huge subject, mostly not made of wood until after the industrial revolution and by far one of the harder things to invent. Both the British and the Americans took more than a hundred years to establish a working paper mill on their soil because of the availability of linen/cotton/hemp based rags. A recent scholar has suggested that one of the reasons papermaking was so centralized in Venice and Fabriano was proximity to worn out sails -- this is a whole other rabbit hole that might be useful for future books.

The blacksmith figuring out how to cast type and do it in 3 days — my partner is a blacksmith and I have done typecasting by hand, so I know the process for creating the punches and the molds and the type — we salute this optimism and laughed really hard and enjoyed the mental puzzle of figuring out whether that would be possible. We think maybe so, under extraordinary circumstances. Mostly it's a question of whether they would have had alphabetical punches already on hand and would "only" have had to invent the hand casting mould -- which is a really genius bit of engineering.

Finally, general note to everyone not to have lead type and food prep in the same space. Or at least make a big deal of anyone messing with type washing their hands thoroughly. It was kind of unclear to me what part of the cheese barn the print shop was set up in -- upstairs? weight can be an issue at some point because lead, but that would be better separation of poison from food. I have been worried about how the little crocheted animals manage to clean their paws after typesetting -- handling lead type leaves a lot of dirt on the fingers. Honestly, handling lead isn't too dangerous, but eating lead is very very bad, as we know.

Yeah, wow, I really liked this book and spent waaaay too much time thinking about all the details.

[Cindy · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars, rounded up

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

First, I have read and enjoyed all of the books so far in the Spellshop series, even though I generally do not enjoy romance novels. I would rate these as more in the cozy genre than romantasy, though there is certainly a romance plot in each one, it takes a backseat to whatever the major story arc is. In this case, Eloren, a refugee librarian from The Great Library, who flees a civil war and takes refugee with her estranged grandmother Mika and begins working in Mika's titular magical cheese shop. With her life upended and her future uncertain, Eloren must decide what she wants her new life's purpose to be.

I really enjoyed the character of Mika, her friends, and Eloren's eventually solution to what her purpose would be. I just wish more time had been spent on her working on her purpose than on debating what it would be. I can't say more without spoiling her epiphany, but I really liked the direction Durst went in with that, especially because Eloren finds a way to find her own passion and doesn't just surrender herself to her boyfriend, grandmother, or parents' wishes, as I was afraid might happen. Some characters that seemingly exist only as annoyances in the story are revealed to have deeper reasons for their actions and are not as one dimensional as they initially seem, which was also a nice touch. Also, the premise of the magical cheese shop was definitely unique, and I hope Durst continues to be this imaginative with her settings if she writes more in the series.

Though I still liked the book, I found this to be the weakest Spellshop novel so far (the prior novel, A Sea of Charms, was my favorite). The story takes a very long time to get going. Eloren is directionless, so the story is matching the character, but I felt like the first half of the book could have been condensed a bit. There was an excessive amount about cheesemaking that I think could have been cut down - of course, everyone's mileage on that may vary, but personally I prefer eating cheese to learning about the process. After four books, I also found some of the elements a bit repetitive. I know tropes are tropes for a reason; they work, and cozies are meant to be relaxing and predictable to some extent, but it did feel like this one was ticking boxes at some points.

Still, this was a nice cozy and more creative than many others, in my opinion. If you've liked the others in this series, you will enjoy this too. If you haven't read the prior books, you certainly could read this as a standalone, but some characters from earlier books do make brief appearances in this one, so you'll get more out of it if you begin at the beginning.

[Angie S. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sarah Beth Durst has once again given life to loveable characters, imaginatively charming settings, mythical creatures and loveable sentient plants. Her stories are sprinkled with warmth, kindness, love, and let’s not forget, flying cats! The Magical Cheese Emporium is all of this and so much more!

The city of Alyssium has fallen, the emperor has been defenestrated (I love that SBD uses defenestrated in her books!). The revolutionaries have won, but the Great Library has burned and with it Eloren’s life as she knows it. She quite suddenly finds herself mourning the loss of her best friend, her library job, and her home. When she writes to her parents, she finds that they have moved without so much of a note or forwarding address, but her grandmother, Mika, offers to take her in, providing a job and a place to live.

Eloren’s return to her home town of Dew is fraught with uncertainty, but as she slowly starts to let people in, she finds herself enjoying her life with her grandmother in her Magical Cheese Emporium - who wouldn’t?! The only problem? The unicorns hate her. How can you make magical unicorn cheese if the unicorns run every time they see you?

In a quest to a. Avoid her overbearing parents that swoop back in, and b. Find her passion and her purpose, Eloren realizes (much slower than any of the readers) that her passion is books and the stories they contain. More so, she believes in sharing those stories with others especially after the evil emperor has declared knowledge only for a selected few. With the help of her new friends, community, Garyn, her love interest, and the blessing of the Great Library, she begins reprinting books to share and sell, creating Dew’s one and only Magical Cheese and Book Emporium.

Eloren not only finds her purpose, she finds a home, family, love, and a community that believes in the power of stories. AND she manages to start a political revolution that overthrows the longstanding, corrupt governor, bringing back the vote, and voice to the people of Dew.

There is not a single thing to dislike about The Magical Cheese Emporium! It hits all the marks: flying cats, cheese, judgemental unicorns, giant cave toads, books, crazy family, sentient plants, an actual cheese mouse, love, and revolution against oppressive governments, big and small. Oh, did I mention cheese?!

[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sarah Beth Durst's cozy fantasy just keeps getting better and better as she continues to add to this universe, and The Magical Cheese Emporium is another wonderful story. The common thread in this series so far has been following characters as they deal with the fallout from the anti-Imperial revolution, and the chaos in the capital city of Alyssium. In this book the main character is Eloren, a former junior librarian--and minor revolutionary--from the Great Library. As the story starts Eloren has lost her job, her best friend, and the life that she thought she would have. She has fled from the chaos in the city and taken refuge on her home island, with her estranged grandmother Mika.

Mika's life is her unique cheese shop, and with her age and her taxes both continually rising, she needs help. Of course Eloren has never once thought about a career in cheese. Plus, the unicorns won't come anywhere near her, which makes milking them difficult. And of course Eloren's childhood best friend Garyn is still on the island, and their connection seems as strong as ever, though he has gotten way more attractive over the years...There are also Mika's magical somewhat secret magical friends, pushy parents, and the question of what the Governor of the island is doing with all of these exorbitant taxes.

The Magical Cheese Emporium is a lovely story about finding your passion and how it is never too late to choose a new path. It is also about the fact that the world may be dangerous and chaotic, but you can still work to improve your own community. Of course it is also about cheese. And books.

If you haven't picked up this series yet but are interested in cozy fantasy then I recommend starting immediately. If you like Travis Baldree's Legends and Lattes series then you will love this one as well. I hope that Sarah Beth Durst continues to give us new stories about the Crescent Isles for a long long time.

[Second Chapter Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have loved the cozy, whimsical world Sarah Beth Durst created with The Spellshop, and The Magical Cheese Emporium delivers that same warm, magical feeling.

After losing her position as an assistant librarian when the Great Library burns, Eloren returns home to her grandmother’s magical cheese shop. And when I say magical cheese shop, I mean it. There are uncooperative unicorns, a monster in the cheese caves, a mouse made of cheese, and a childhood best friend who has apparently gotten considerably more handsome since she last saw him. It’s quirky, charming, and exactly the kind of premise that makes cozy fantasy so much fun.

What I enjoyed most, though, was the story underneath all of the whimsy. When the local governor begins imposing impossible taxes on small businesses, Eloren refuses to stand by and watch her community suffer. I loved the emphasis on protecting small businesses, supporting your community, and discovering that sometimes the place you thought you had outgrown is exactly where you belong.

The romance between Eloren and Garyn is sweet and very much secondary to the larger story. This is definitely more cozy fantasy with a romantic subplot than romance-forward fantasy, and I thought that balance worked well here.

I also think this is a fantastic crossover option for advanced younger readers who are ready to venture into adult fantasy. The characters and story are adult, but the whimsical tone and approachable storytelling make it something I would feel comfortable recommending to a strong younger reader.

This wasn't quite a five-star read for me, but it was charming, imaginative, and full of heart. If you loved The Spellshop, cozy fantasy, magical creatures, small-town communities, and books that feel like a warm hug, this one should absolutely be on your list.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bramble/Tor Publishing Group for providing an advance copy in exchange for my honest review.

[Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Magical Cheese Emporium is the fourth book in the author’s Spellshop series. Like the previous entries, it is a warm blanket to snuggle into, with a purring cat by your side and a hot drink on the table.

After a revolution, Eloren has lost her job as a librarian and landed in the small town where her grandmother lives and runs a cheese shop. Eloren is adrift, not knowing what she wants to do next while feeling quite certain that it isn’t make and sell cheese. Eloren is also dealing with guilt and grief over the loss of her friend Kinna, who died in the revolution.

Eloren’s mother and her grandmother are estranged, and Eloren doesn’t know much about her grandmother’s past or present. She meets her grandmother’s friends (including an ancient giant “monster” who helps with the cheese and who can play back things he has seen and heard) and helps as best she can in the cute little cheese shop (although Eloren cannot convince the unicorns to let her milk them). Everyone in this town is fantasy-colored and fantastical. There’s a sentient spider plant and a cheese mouse. And there’s Eloren’s best friend from childhood, the handsome inventor Garyn.

If you want to dissolve yourself into a fantasy world where you only have to worry about the characters’ problems instead of your own, you may enjoy the entire Spellshop series. I do have to note that this book is slow starting. Very slow starting – so little happened for so long that I almost decided to stop reading it. But I’m glad I pushed forward.

I read an advance reader copy of The Magical Cheese Emporium from Netgalley.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

TL;DR: Another delightful cozy fantasy.
Source: NetGalley, so many thanks to the publisher!

Plot: Eloren was part of the rebellion that overthrew the emperor and now she’s living with the PTSD of the events. And learning how to make cheese.
Characters: Honestly Eloren was my least favorite of the MCs in this series but I did love where this story went.
Setting: I loved this little town, I wish we’d gotten more from the townsfolk but I loved the families.
Fantasy/Cozy: This was definitely cozy, and the fantasy elements of Sarah Beth Durst’s books are amazing.

Thoughts:

The Spellshop books really focus in on people recovering from trauma and finding friendship and family. This volume finds Eloren recovering at her grandmother’s cheese shop after her efforts in the rebellion. She witnessed the death of her best friend, and is dealing with the trauma of that event and the grief.

For the most part I really enjoyed this book, but Eloren was oblivious to the most basic of things at times and that frustrated me. The past Spellshop books have had very capable heroines, even dealing with their trauma and situations. But Eloren, I’m not going to lie… I wanted to shake her at times.

Ultimately this one did pan out wonderfully though. I loved where Eloren went, how she developed and what she learned about herself. I also really loved the plot events that lead to this. So as always I recommend and love this series. It’s such a fantastic cozy fantasy with real heart.

[Tracy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was given the opportunity to read and review an ARC from Netgalley.

As a teacher-librarian at a public school that has all reading levels --from emerging readers to university bound students--I am constantly looking for appropriate content that will interest my readers. My students are currently reading mysteries and romances.

This is the fourth book in the Spellshop series and the fourth book of Sarah Beth Durst’s that I have read. Of the four, this was my least favorite. I felt like I was 60% of the way through the book before anything really happened. I understand that the main character, Eloran, is dealing with trauma and exploring her options, but I really felt there was little conflict other than person vs. self. And, there was a great deal of detail on how to make cheese; so much to the point that I felt like I was reading a nonfiction cookbook. It just was too much. I am not a cheese-hater, love cheese--it just felt out of place.


What I like about this book series is that it has a hint of romance and also strong, female characters. Eloran fell flat as a character for me.

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another cozy fantasy following a different librarian. Eloren flees the burning city and stays with her estranged grandmother, who runs a shop that sells cheese from magical animals. She is depressed; her whole life was wrapped up in being a librarian. Now she is learning to make cheese. Slowly she learns more about her family, cheese, and the history of her island. Eloren also reconnects with her best childhood best friend.

This book has a super slow burn of true friends to lovers plot. It also reckons with empire, colonialization, and the importance of stories. Unfortunately, it also has characters figure out how to create modern devices and business trends with too much ease. (Eloren's non-cheese project reminded me too much of what I did not like about Legends & Lattes.)

Characters from the previous novels all make an appearance or are mentioned. Maybe in the next book Caz and Terlu will reunite.

*** Read an eARC from Edelweiss ***

[Roses for Reading · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another cozy slice of life story from the talented Sarah Beth Durst. Returning to the Crescent Islands we get to see more of the most whimsical world full of love, cheese, and winged cats. Our main protagonist Eloran has just returned to her home island after the fall of the empire and the tragic loss of her best friend, her job and her home. There she makes new friends, reconnects with her childhood best friend and has to find a new purpose in life while still grieving and dealing with the recent trauma.

So many fantastical beings were added to this world including a special sentient plant, a mouse made of cheese, and a fascinating cheese making monster. While maintaining many cozy elements heavy topics were also explored including grief, trauma, and politics. I think the author did a fantastic job of balancing these elements out.

Overall a very fun and enjoyable entry into this series and I can't wait for the next one! Maybe a certain lighthouse keeper will be included?

Thanks to netgalley for an advanced reading copy for review.

[Stas · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book so much!! I am such a fan of this series and am so happy I was able to get ARC access!

This series made me love cosy fantasy and this book is a really great addition to it. There were parts that felt so relatable, finding your passion and path in life, grief, complicated family dynamics. and there was also so much that felt aspirational!! I too want to march directly in front of a politicians house and tell them what's up without the dangerous consequences that might have in the United States. This book also did a great job at showing the losses of the revolution that the entire series centers around. Many of the early books glossed over the negatives to it but the most recent two have really emphasized the cost of the revolution.

Really loved the main characters, so happy we got to see more magical creatures. Not as much exploring of the world which is okay!! I really want to read a book set on the magical menagerie island the former emperor had.

Romance was cute but felt very secondary to the finding oneself of it all.

Definitely recommend!

[Lara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sarah Beth Durst brings us back to the Crescent Isles with this fourth installment in "The Spellshop" series!
Eloren had just begun her career in the Grand Library of Alyssium when the empire was overthrown and her section of the library was set ablaze. Fleeing the capital back to the small island of Dew and the safety of The Magical Cheese Emporium run by her estranged grandmother, Eloren has to come to terms with the loss of her future in the Grand Library and the sudden death of her friend during the rebellion. But with the help of her childhood best friend, Garyn, and a motley crew of villagers, both magical and mundane, she'll reinvent herself and reshape what it means to forge your own path and take risks.
Curl up in your favorite comfy chair, savor a plateful of magical cheese, and prepare to sail away to Dew, the home of the Midnight Knitting Society, throgs, unicorns, gryphons, sentient spider plants, a magical mouse, and the weirdest group of neighbors you'll ever hope to meet!

[Allison · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to read The Magical Cheese Emporium!

I am a HUGE fan of this series and was so excited to read her upcoming book, especially when I learned it was about a cheese shop (I LOVE cheese lol). But unlike the others in this series, I felt this book was more solemn than the previous three. Though there are unicorns, magical sidekicks, and a budding romance, this book also covers death, trauma, financial instability, and politics. So much of what happens in the town of Dew feels very relatable to what is happening in our world today (just in a cozier and kinder setting).

All in all, I enjoyed this book and this world Durst has created. I do wish there were more moments focused just on the Magical Cheese Emporium--like what a cool concept, cheese by unicorns that give you different magical reactions?!? I was hoping the emporium would have been more of a main character or plot device, sort of how the greenhouse was in The Enchanted Greenhouse. That being said, I love this world and will continue to read about it as long as SBD allows us.

[Lisa Penninga · Rating 4 out of 5]

This cozy fantasy series is such a heartfelt read and a reminder, that even when we think we have it all, it can be taken away by politics, fear, silly laws, prejudice, and even judgmental unicorns! This fourth book brought together a love of stories, cheese, friendship, and a reminder that we never truly know someone’s story until we get it from their own words. I really loved the characters in this book, as well as the allusions and references to characters from the earlier books. While it could be a stand alone, for a perfect read, I think this series should be read in order. It’s truly a heartfelt read that reminds the reader of so many life lessons along the way but also that an perfect community can be affected by greed and fear, but when we rally together, we can accomplish anything!

[Kristen · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Magical Cheese Emporium is the fourth book in Durst's Spellshop series. Having read and enjoyed them all, I can say that while they are an interconnected set, they can each be read alone. I recommend reading all and in order, however. This particular episode tells the story of another displaced librarian from the capitol destroyed by revolutionaries. Eloren arrives at her grandmother's cheese shop broken hearted and without purpose. She reunites with friends and family and discovers what means the most in her life. The book is closed door, with mild expletives and LGBTQ side characters.

I received a free advance reader copy. All opinions are my own.

[Buried_in_Fiction · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another fantastic addition to the Spellshop series! Sarah Beth Durst really does know her stuff when it comes to cozy fantasy- after all, who doesn’t love whimsical characters, a bunch of cheese, found family and a dash of second chance romance? I love how the author creates such a unique and fun story but also touches on important topics and brings real depth to all of her characters. There were some slow points and repetition but overall, this was a great story and I cannot wait to continue with this series!

I’d like to extend a big thank you to Tor Publishing Group, NetGalley and the author for the advanced copy of this book. My thoughts are my own.

[Amber Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank you Netgalley for this arc!

I know this book is classified as cozy fantasy but this book was so much more than that for me. This was a literary hug! It was cozy, hopeful, warm, romantic, delightful and so much more. I adored Eloren and all of the side characters in the book. All of the characters added to the charm and just felt like a lovely world I would want to live in. And the epilogue having beloved characters from the other books pop up was just the cherry on top. I would say this is his best work so far.

[Vi · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a really big contender of being my favorite book in the Spellshop series with Sea of Charms!

Childhood friends
He falls first
Judgemental unicorn a$$holes LOL that poop purple glitter?!
adorable magical cheese mouse that wields sharp objects and gets a gifted bow!
Caz's long lost daughter?!
Such a lovely lovely cosy fantasy. Be ready for those major cheese cravings.

Will definitely post full review when out but DEFINITELY RECOMMEND

Thank you Bramble for approving this netgalley ARC!

[Carissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank you Tor Publishing Group and NetGalley for the advanced reader copy of this book!

This was a fun continuation in the Spellshop world! Eloren's journey to find her passion is a great trial and all of the character around her are lovely! Be sure to have some cheese ready, as you will end up craving a snack as you read! We get a few cameos throughout with past characters and fun little nods to the world at large as well as some political impact that have been rippling throughout all of the books so far!