Finding Love at the Magical Curiosity Shop by Jaimie Admans

 Jaimie Admans has fast become one of my favourite authors. I love her books, which are full of quirky characters, romance and with a little bit of magic. That being said, this isn’t one of my favourites of her stories, as it took me a little while to settle into the characters.

When 13 year old Ava comes into Mickey’s shop on Ever After Street to get away from her father she falls in love with the shop and is completely under the spell of the outgoing and gregarious owner, who is in complete contrast to her father, Ren, who is a very closed, and guarded history teacher at Ava’s school. When Ren comes into the shop, looking for his daughter, he immediately bangs his head on a birdcage, and proceeds to tell Mickey what he thinks of the shop – which is not great. Ren’s relationship with Mickey swings alternately from falling out to making up, and along the way they find a very old diary hidden in a chest. This binds the 3 of them together in order to find out more of the mystery of the diary.

From about 25% in I couldn’t put it down, and loved it so much. I can’t wait to re-visit Ever After Street once again.

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