Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love in the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party--or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, and the Fair Folk. So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby, who manages to charm the townsfolk, get in the middle of Emily's research, and utterly confound and frustrate her. But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones--the most elusive of all faeries--lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town, she also finds herself on the trail of another mys
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Cambridge folklore professor Emily Wilde sets off for a remote nineteenth-century village called Hrafnsvik to study its hidden Folk for her encyclopaedia. Her infuriatingly charming academic rival shows up in her cottage.
Heather Fawcett has published three Emily Wilde novels so far: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands, and Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales. The series continues.
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries is closer to cozy fantasy with romantic tension than romantasy. There is no explicit content. Most readers rate the spice 1 out of 5.
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries is closer to cozy fantasy with romantic tension than romantasy. There is no explicit content. Most readers rate the spice 1 out of 5.
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries was written by Heather M. Fawcett, published in 2023 by Orbit.
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries is 325 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries is a standalone novel by Heather M. Fawcett, not part of a series.
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.