Sarah Beth Durst's The Spellshop
This was cute. It’s about a librarian in an imperial city that’s currently under revolt, and the library is on fire, so she and her assistant (a sentient plant) flee—with five crates of spellbooks, to keep the, from burning. They end up in the cottage where she was born and eventually start doing magic to help the dying island, even though it’s illegal. There’s also a hot and helpful neighbor with a herd of merhorses and a lot of friendly townspeople. The plot was kind of eh for me—trying to manufacture conflict in a cozy fantasy romance is hard—and though I agreed with the political sentiments, they felt shoehorned in, but I liked all the parts with magic and friendship. B+.
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