Huff is one of my favourite authors and I was looking forward to seeing what she'd done with a new world. Allie inherits her grandmother's junk shop in Calgary and moves there to take it over. The catch is that the whole family is inundated with magic users, and there are some surprises tucked away in the shop, and in Calgary. Cousins, friends and aunties all band together to help, and the story had enough facets to it to keep me interested.
My quibble was that there were too many places where it seemed that phrases were missing or things weren't properly explained and I had to go back and reread sentences twice or three times to figure out what just happened. Mixed up pronouns, leaps of logic, offhand comments opening up whole new areas of magic kept breaking the flow of the story. But that said, I still laughed out loud quite a few times and I really enjoyed the story. ( )

Set in my home town. The shop address is between two stores but Huff has the neighbourhood including the killer weir down pat. ( )

Having read other books by Tanya Huff, I was excited to read this book. However, I was very disappointed after reading the book. The story, as other reviewers have stated, is about a magical family with some unique perspectives on things.

I found this book difficult to follow, almost as if I started reading the 2nd book in a series. I thought there was an "info dump" in the beginning and then I was to remember the little details later on and somet hings were important to the story in subsequent chapters. Also, I found something off about the writing - dangling participles, misplaced modifiers, something (and I am not a grammer phobe by any stretch of the imagination.) I found myself rereading the sentences often to understand what the author was trying to get across.

While the story was fun, there were too many distractors for me to truly enjoy it and I have enjoyed most of Tanya Huff's books in the past. Maybe, I just wasn't in the right frame of mind to fully enjoy. ( )

Many thanks to Tanya Huff for one of the best fantasy novels I have read in years. Echoes of Charles deLint's work are ever present in this delightful story of a young woman who leaves her strangely-empowered family, ruled by a circle of "Aunties," to take charge of her deceased grandmother's antique shop and perhaps also discover what happened to Grannie.

Leprechauns, sorcerers, dragons -- oh, oops, those are actually dragon-LORDS -- old and new love interests, and rafts of cousins all contribute to an exciting plot in which every new revelation leads to more questions and intricacies. Sexual relationships of all types abound, but they are more implied than described; much heavy breathing, not so much actual coitus. And all is handled with just enough humor so that the reader can sympathize with the characters while still laughing hysterically at the dialog.

And the best part? No icky info-dumps, those paragraphs of rules and regs for the alternative universe to which SF&F novels are all too prone. Huff respects her reader's intelligence. One need only pay attention and pick up the hints as they are dropped. ( )

Wow, I couldn't put this book down. I loved the strong female characters, how females were actually in control of the world, made things work THEIR way, protected THEIR family. I found it interesting how Tanya Huff portrayed the males and their testosterone issues. Enchantment Emporium was a delight and I hope Huff has more planned in this story line. ( )