This was a really fun middle grade book. It gave me Secret Garden vibes but with magic and separate timelines.
After Daisy's mom goes on a dangerous voyage and does not come back, Daisy finds herself running and ends up in the Greenwild, a place where people have plant magic. She meets Hal in a secret garden. She finds out that botanists (the people that have magic in the Greenwild) are going missing all over the world. Some of the trusted people in the Greenwild may not really be trusted people.
Daisy finds a really fun group of friends in the Greenwild. She goes to school to try to bring her magic forward, as people who do not have the magic cannot go between worlds. The classes they do are really fun and imaginative. Daisy's nights with Hal in their garden were some of my favorite parts just because a secret garden is so magical and we learn some really plot twist-y things about Hal especially at the end.
The narrator was wonderful. Sometimes when narrators have accents, it's hard to follow, but I was able to understand and listen well to this one.

This is THE kids book right now. I love this one and cannot wait to recommend it to parents that come into my store. I loved everything about this. It’s strange to put a kids book at the top of my reading list this year, but this one is so well written — it takes the cake. I cannot wait for more in the series.

An Epic journey filled with plants, magic, love and a cat.

Story: 4.5/5 stars
Audiobook: 5/5 Stars

We follow young Daisy being left temporarily at a boarding school while her journalist mother follows a story in the Amazon forest. Daisy knows something is wrong and that her mother may be in trouble. She runs away and goes to Kew Gardens where her mother told her help would come if she was in need. There Daisy and her new cat, Napoleon find Greenwild, a magical place filled with plants and wonder. Can Daisy and her new friends help protect this world from threats of the Grim Reapers?

This was a fantastic middle grade read. I found the story medium pace and the world building was great. Narration by Sophia Nomvete was excellent. If you need to fill that magic gap left by the Harry Potter books this may just be the book you are after. I look forward to the next instalment of the series.

Thank you NetGalley and Macmillian Audio for a copy of this Audiobook ARC in exchange for an honest review.

4.5/5 round up to 5

A magical read that had weirdly good vibes for summertime even though it set in December.