Much like the other books in the series, nothing too exciting but is still a lovely cozyish read. I thoroughly enjoyed this.

Marnie is definitely a piece of me. And when you recognise your own traits in a main character, you can’t help but warm to the story. Coupled with the fact that this centres around a bookshop then, without doubt, I knew this book would be a winner from Admans.

This is the second book in the Ever After Street series and you can certainly read this as a stand-alone. I like how characters from the previous story make an appearance, although I was yearning to see more from the established relationship from book one… hopefully they will feature in later instalments. Nonetheless, you can’t avoid the charm and magic of Ever After Street and this time readers are spoiled with a re-telling of Beauty and the Beast.

Marnie’s struggling bookshop is on the verge of being evicted. Her strange neighbour, whom no one has seen, becomes an unlikely ally with helping save her shop. Over time, friendship forms between the lonely bookworm and a man who people refer to as “Beast”. This is because this strange person never reveals his face and seems to enjoy keeping his distance from others – to the point that all conversations with Marnie either take place through a very thick hedge, or with this neighbour tightly wrapped up and revealing nothing.

This doesn’t deter Marnie and a beautiful friendship forms, as lovely as the roses in the next door garden. I loved the parallels established between the well-known fairy tale, even down to Marnie’s old boyfriend. Furthermore, the fact that Marnie is such a booklover made her even more endearing and I was really rooting for her to succeed in contacting the mysterious author of a book that she loves with a passion.

The story comes full circle with final events taking place in the main castle – just like the fairy tale and very similar to the first book. Similarly, I liked how the key male protagonist is not a glossy, shiny perfection of manhood: in both stories, Adman presents less-than-perfect men who have their own vulnerabilities. This makes them even more appealing in terms of characters and also empowers the female protagonists, especially as they are also initially presented as quite lost in life as well.

A lovely tale, I was so sad when I reached the end. I certainly cannot wait for the next book and know that I will be diving in to it very soon. This is a story that will delight romance readers, book lovers and those who just want to indulge in some childhood magic that gets a bit lost in adulthood.

With thanks to Boldwood books and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I absolutely adored this book and think its one of my favourites of this year so far. An amazing concept and i loved the fairytale realism of it all - a great read

Rating: 4 stars ⭐️

Series: The Ever After Street

Tropes:
grumpy x sunshine ☀️
found family 💛
closed door 🌹
small town 🏘️
slow burn 🔥 

This was an amazing feel-good women’s fiction that I would highly recommend if you want a cozy read.

I’m personally adding the rest of this series to my TBR to read more about the venders on this beautiful street. 💛

I never read a Disney inspired adaptation before and loved the Belle and the Beast elements throughout the story, it made it magical. ✨

This novel follows Marnie Platt as she embarks on her dream of opening a bookstore, a lifelong aspiration she shares with her mother.

The found family trope is particularly well-executed, giving readers a sense of warmth with which they can relate.

Thank you to Netgalley, Jamie Admans and the publisher for providing me with this copy. All opinions are my own.

Oh what an enchanted book!!!! I loved reading it! It made me think of the beauty and the beast book. I usually enjoy a lot books that talks about neighbors and this was the case! I absolutely adored the 2 main characters and how their relationship is building up! Very very well written story! 4 stars out of 5 for this magical book!!!

A magical story that will make you believe in fairytales all over again. I love the way in which Jaimie Admans brings the story to life in your mind, and the way her storytelling leaves you unable to put the book down.

I think that this is going to be my favourite read of this year. I adored every 'enchanted moment'! I was totally lost in the magical fairy tale experience and Ever After Street is one of my favourite series every. Jaimie has a talent for drawing such interesting characters, in a wonderful setting and situations where you are wishing for a happy ever after for everyone. i love the way that previous characters and story lines combine, but you could read this book on its own and be totally enthralled with its magic.

Love the author and have been enjoying her books and stories as they are uplifting, charming and easy to read. This is a brand new series (of which this is book two) and if the series continues to be as good as these first two books I won't complain. Loved it. I love Ever After Street, love the characters and Marnie especially. She is much like someone you might know, going through the ups and downs of life, looking for a bit of happiness.

This story is charming and heart-warming, has depth and is by no means boring or predictable. It made me smile but it wasn't a mushy romance, there is a story to tell and the author told it well. Loved it and look forward to seeing what comes next.

Thank you NetGalley and Boldwood Books for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

I loved the first book in this series and couldn't wait to move on to the second which didn't disappoint. Absolutely loved this twist on the Beauty and the Beast fairytale and was really intrigued as to what 'the beast'' was hiding. Gorgeously romantic and poignant. Can't wait to read the next one

The first book in this series was interesting, but I spent a chunk of the time reading it thinking of Disney and copyright issues of things like that happened in real life. This second one felt deeper than the previous work.

I liked the author's use of Cinderella in the previous work.The Beauty and the Beast connection is well done in this one. Both the characters carry their own traumas, and that in return also means they hide away a part ( or in this case, whole) of themselves from the world.

Our bookseller has had trouble finding the spark that existed when her mother was alive. Finding out that the bookshop might need to vacate the premises if things didn't change means a lot of thinking ( and tears). There aren't many unexpected surprises for the readers, although the people in the book are surprised.

For a happily-ever-after plot set in a very filmy fairytale based location, the book touches on some deep-rooted emotional issues and how time and good company can help, if not cure.

I highly recommend this series for fans of the genre.
I received an ARC thanks to NetGalley and the publishers but the review is entirely based on my own reading experience.

A brilliant read and one I really enjoyed. The characters are loveable. The plot is one that is engaging and I found myself completely drawn into the story and enjoyed the writing style.

Whenever I realise that this author has a new book out, I automatically grab it because I have enjoyed every single book she has written, and this one was no exception :)

Marnie is still grieving her mum's death and as a result, everything in her life, including her shop, is suffering from neglect. As someone who has recently lost a parent as well, I understand how this can happen.

I love that Marnie starts to build a friendship with Darcy, very slowly, because Darcy has his own issues that he is dealing with. Both of their lives are transformed by their friendship and it is so romantic, I could just cry!

One of the things that I really enjoy about Jaimie Admans' stories is that they are all about a meeting of hearts and minds and getting to know each other in a deep and meaningful way. This is rare, these days, and I, for one, hope that never changes.

Anyway, beautiful story, as always.

5 stars from me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Boldwood Books.

This book is like book worm heaven, it’s mainly set at A Tale as old as Time bookshop but you do also get other snippets of ever after street as well as this is the second in the series. Despite this you don’t have to have read book 1 first as they have different main characters, but there would be a spoiler of how book 1 ends if you were to read this first…

I buddy read this with a friend and we both guessed the big reveal quite early on but this didn’t take anything away from the story and we both absolutely loved it!

There were a few little innuendos throughout the story which had me chuckling along but there were also some emotional moments where you just wanted to reach in and give the guys a hug! Especially a scene near the end of the book but I won’t give anything away..

I enjoyed book 1 in the series but this one was even better for me and I loved all of the book references throughout, agreeing with Marnie’s recommendations. U.N.Known’s book sounded incredible to - if only this was a real book!

I’m now really excited to read book 3 which is Cleo’s story as she makes a few appearances in this book and I’m intrigued to know more about her!

Book two in this series
A lovely book
With Wonderful characters
I didn’t want to put it down
Thanks NetGalley

A really good book, where heartbreak and loneliness can get fixed with the help of your friends. Even if they are new friends you have been pushing away with the best of intentions. I enjoyed finishing this and all the authors books have been really enjoyable

I love Jaimie’s previous books, and this was no exception. I love the premise of the Ever After Street book series, and this was a lovely second instalment.
Here’s to waiting for the third!!

A LITTLE BACKSTORY TO THIS SERIES

An Enchanted Moment on Ever After Street is the second book in the Ever After Street Series by The Nerdy Bookarazzi’s favourite author Jaimie Admans. Just to give you an insight on the Ever After Street Series, in this series Jaimie, plans on exploring all our favourite childhood fairytales with a modern outlook. This series takes place in a fictional place called the Ever After Street where a small community has multiple shops with Fairytale themes ranging from Aladdin, Sleeping beauty and what not?

The first book in the series is A Midnight Kiss on Ever After Street, in this book the author explored Cinderella’s story which all of us from The Nerdy Bookarazzi absolutely loved and now in An Enchanted Moment on Ever After Street, sure you all would have guessed it! It’s The Beauty and The Beast’s retelling. Yayy!!

It is a public knowledge that a lot of people have a conflicted relationship with The Beauty and The Beast story or all the Disney Fairytales for that matter, majorly because of the way in which all these females characters are built. But you will not have to worry about it in this series because Jaimie has got us all covered in that aspect.

First of all, let me tell you why I was excited about this book when Jaimie told me what the next book on this series is going to be. Well, it is based on The Beauty and The Beast so obviously there is going to be a lot of books and she said the lead character is going to be a Bookshop owner. Right after hearing this I was convinced this book is going to be mind-blowing and I would definitely love it. I was waiting for the launch eagerly for months and jumped at the first opportunity to read this book.

STORYLINE

An Enchanted Moment on Ever After Street is the story of a bookseller Marnie Platt. She owns a bookshop along with her mother who has recently passed away due to illness. Marnie while grappling with the loss of her mother, has to also save her crumbling bookstore from going out of business. To add on to her plight, she receives an eviction notice from her landlord as her negligence in maintaining the garden area which has attracted a lot of complaints. While struggling to come to terms with her mother’s death and boosting the daily sales of her bookshop, will Marnie be able to save her beloved bookshop and revive the garden to its original beauty as it was?

Marnie buckles under the pressure and realises the enormity of her world currently being out of her control. Surprisingly she finds help from her so called “Scary Neighbour” who has always been aloof from Ever After Street and its neighbourhood activities. However, he only offers help over a ledge as tall as the walls he has built around himself. The conversations Marnie has with her Scary Neighbour become her pillar of support during this time and she leans on him without ever having seen him. Will she be able to break through the hard exterior that he has created to protect himself (or others) from the beast inside?

THE NERDY BOOKARAZZI’S TAKE ON THE BOOK

The book being based on a renowned fairytale held no surprise ending but still managed to keep us engaged with its interesting take on the world of a small bookshop owner, and the path of healing the main characters were going through. This book highlights challenges and realities that a small bookshop owner might face during this era, where they have to compete with E-commerce giants who offer books for much cheaper rates and have a monopoly over the industry. The only way these little bookshop owners can stand apart is by providing amazing real-life bookish experiences to the readers which every reader craves for in this digital world. This book allows us to understand the foundation of what connects booklovers and it also encourages the bookshop owners use their stores as a safe haven where booklovers can form a community or space to connect over the universes created by their favourite authors.

The most notable aspect of this book is how the lead characters evolved and faced their emotional baggage and finally moved out of it. This is one of the major themes of the book which will have a lasting impression on the reader’s minds. Personally, one instance that shook the basement of all our belief system was the moment where Marnie gets to know her scary neighbour better and the ordeal he had faced in life, she wants to console him, saying it will be better, you should move on and all the other regular stuff we tell our friends and family when we are trying to console but she will consciously restrain herself from doing it. She believes all these consolations will only belittle the bad experiences and pain they’ve gone through in the past and that’s completely unfair. That line changed everything, it was like waking up from a trance and facing the reality for what it is. Jaimie subtly add these kind of strong psychological aspects to her books effortlessly which resounds like a thunderbolt.

When it comes to books, bookstore, bookish ideas infiltrated into books there’s nobody who can do it better than Jaimie Admans. If you are a bookshop owner, you should read this book and The little bookshop of love stories, the ideas in these books will help you boost the business and the readers crave that their favourite bookshop would come up with something like this. All the bookish references will make the readers run crazy with nostalgia.

The characterisation and the development of the Scary Neighbour next door was phenomenal. Both Marnie and Scary Neighbours character was on point, the author knows all her characters inside out that at no point any of them reacted or behaved out of character. This was absolutely remarkable because we come across various books where there will be no consistency in the character which would make the reading journey ponderous. This happens majorly because the authors themselves don’t know their characters well or they take an extremely long time to write the book and as a results sometimes the authors tent to forget their characters if it is not meticulously planned beforehand.

In the world of external beauties and amount emphasise is given on how someone looks, walks and carries themselves, through this book the author had enhanced us to see what the most vital things of all – the heart, character, intent and manners, which will make an individual look beautiful.

Generally Jaimie’s books focuses a lot on the sense of community, how people help each other no matter what. This book is no different, every shopkeeper in the ever-after-street is a sweet heart with the heart of gold. After reading her books you will want to see the good in everyone. It is a the kind of positivity everyone needs in life and Jaimie‘s books never fails to feed the readers will happiness and positivity.

It is definitely a good read if you are looking to heal your heart and fill your life with happiness then we would strongly suggest you go on this ride to Ever After Street with Marnie, we are pretty sure you will not be disappointed.

Our rating for this book would be 4 out of 5 stars

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This was a nice little read! I really loved the very last line of the boo; I think it finished the story off perfectly. Sometimes the fairy tale cheese was a bit much, but I guess that's the whole point of the book. Looking forward to book number 3.

Another delightful contemporary spin on one of our favourite Disney favourite princess stories. The setting is enchanted, the character are flawed, and the storytelling is heartwarmingly emotional. Sometimes you just want to fall in live with falling in love and that is exactehat the Enchanted Street series does for us with all the castles and balls you can desire in a way that makes sense in a modern day fairy tale.

𝗝𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗲 𝗔𝗱𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗴𝗲𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱…. Only this is an excellent read. Completely lovely and heartwarming. This is another book that has made my heart swell and improved my mood.

This is completely charming and definitely full on Disney vibes. Marnie is completely brilliant, as a character I have loved her so much I’ve wanted to envelope her in a good cwtch.

Admans never fails to transport me to the pages and this is one I didn’t want to put down. I devoured this in just one sitting. Everything about this book has been perfection and comforting in ways only an Admans book can do.

I love that the bookshop is named ‘Tale as Old as Time’. It’s no secret that Beauty and the Beast is my favourite Disney film so even this link has made me smile. I can safely say I was pulled in and unwilling to put this down.

This is a book I didn’t want to end. It’s been brilliant from beginning to end. An Admans read is always a pleasure. This is an author who gets better and better, every book has elements to make you smile. However, this is quite possibly my new favourite.

I have no hesitation in recommending this gem to others. An absolutely gorgeous read.

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