Sorcery of Thorns (Sorcery of Thorns, #1)

by Margaret Rogerson

The stories claimed that the moss folk were stewards of the forest. They tended to its trees and creatures, watched over them from birth to death. They had a magic of their own.

This feels like grown up spiderwick chronicles

She now understood that the world wasn’t kind to young women, especially when they behaved in ways men didn’t like, and spoke truths that men weren’t ready to hear.