Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries: the cosy and heart-warming Sunday Times Bestseller (Emily Wilde Series)

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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries: the cosy and heart-warming Sunday Times Bestseller (Emily Wilde Series)

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries: the cosy and heart-warming Sunday Times Bestseller (Emily Wilde Series)

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A thoroughly charming academic fairy tale, complete with footnotes and a low-key grumpy romance’ Guardian It’s formatted as a series of daily journal entries, and while it’s a creative idea, it didn’t translate to a gripping read. The action was always diminished to a summarization, eliminating a lot of the stakes, and the dialogue always seemed out of place. Fawcett grabs readers’ attention by drawing them into the folklore as well as the surrounding world. A great read for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Erin Morgenstern.” —Library Journal (starred review) trigger + content warnings: mention of loss of a loved one in past, mention of suicide very briefly twice, talk of kidnapping + actual kidnapping, violence, blood, gore, vomit, animal violence + death, child abandonment, spider mentions A charmingly whimsical delight. . . Five dazzling, gladdening stars’ India Holton, author of The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

Prepare to be utterly enchanted. Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett is a superb historical fantasy dashed with charm, whimsy, magic and lightly sprinkled with comedy. I have seen communities far more rustic than Hrafns­vik, for my career has taken me across Europe and Russia, to villages large and small and wilderness fair and foul. I am used to humble accommodations and humble folk—­I once slept in a farmer’s cheese shed in Andalusia—­but I have never been this far north. The wind had tasted snow, and recently; it pulled at my scarf and cloak. It took some time to haul my trunk up the road, but I am nothing if not persevering. Bloody Bambleby, I thought. I haven’t much of a sense of humour myself, something I dearly wish I could call upon in such situations. The ideal book to curl up with on a chilly winter’s evening. . . this book is an absolute delight.‘ Megan Bannen, author of The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy

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This book sounded awesome: a curmudgeonly scholar whose best friend is her dog heads north to do some field research on the local faeries. And I adored the first 2/3 featuring Cambridge professor Emily Wilde as she wanders around Ljosland, charming the local faeries and inadvertently offending the local people - hey, she does recognize that she's not good at people ("I was delighted to sit in the corner with my food and a book and speak to no one"). The book is written as an Edwardian journal, mostly from Emily's POV. I loved the phrasing and style, especially the occasional folktale interspersed with her daily writings. Emily has a vast knowledge of traditional folktales and uses them to interact with the faeries she meets. For example, she carries a copper coin and touches it to ward off enchantments. The faeries here are very traditional, both beautiful and cruel, so her proficiency in knowing the various types really comes in handy. 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, Shadow, and the Fair Folk to other people. A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic, this book wholly enchanted me' Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

He said it as if it were obvious. I snorted again, assuming he was teasing me. "Over the company of a tavern filled with a rapt and grateful audience? I'm sure you do." Well, that almost killed me. I mean that---I froze for a full second, during which our yeti friend nearly skewered me through. I dodged, barely, my head whirling. One day I would like for you to explain to me how you heard of the story of Deirdre and her faerie husband, a long-ago king, which is one of the oldest tales in my realm. Do mortals tell it as we do? When the king's murderous sons schemed to steal his kingdom by starving it into torpor with endless winter, Deirdre collected the tears of his dying people and froze them into a sword, with which he was finally able to slay his children. It is a tale many of my own people have forgotten---I know it only because that poor, witless king is my ancestor.Herein I intend to provide an honest account of my day-­to-­day activities in the field as I document an enigmatic species of faerie called “Hidden Ones.” This journal serves two purposes: to aid my recollection when it comes time to formally compile my field notes, and to provide a record for those scholars who come after me should I be captured by the Folk. Verba volant, scripta manent. As with previous journals, I will presume a basic understanding of dryadology in the reader, though I will gloss certain references that may be unfamiliar to those new to the field.

A Cambridge professor specializing in the study of faeries gets more than she bargained for when she goes meddling in the Folk's business. Ljos­land is the most isolated of the Scandinavian countries, an island situated in the wild seas off the Norwegian mainland, its northern coastline brushing the Arctic Circle. I had accounted for the awkwardness of reaching such a place—­the long and uncomfortable voyage north—­yet I was realizing that I had given little consideration to the difficulties I might face in leaving it if something went wrong, particularly once the sea ice closed in. 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. It's a cozy fantasy novel that turns dark and dangerous at one point. Because not all fairies are good. Or have good intentions, you know? So, yeah, Emily encounters some creepy stuff that had me on the edge of my seat. Wow!!! But you definitely get the cozy, heartwarming faerie story as well. It's cottage core in the snow and I loved it LOTS. The characters, the people in the town, the story, the Icelandic folklore, and the romance — I was having the best time reading this book.

What is Heather Fawcett’s cosy fantasy about?

I was shivering, in spite of the uphill trunk-­dragging, and I realized I had neither wood nor matches to warm that dingy place, and perhaps more alarmingly, that I might not know how to light a fire if I did—­I had never done so before. Unfortunately, I happened to glance out the window at that moment and found that it had begun to snow. Thirty-year-old Cambridge Professor Dr. Emily Wilde lives life with a single-minded purpose – she wishes to complete her encyclopaedia of Faerie Folk and does all she can to complete this goal, even if it means suffering the company of other people, the most irritating of whom is her colleague and rival Wendell Bambleby. There are a couple of folktales in between and at the end. These took away from the tempo of the main plot. ( I did love the stories; I just wish they weren’t bang in the middle of the story we were invested in.) A woman who has been in love with the fae all her life and is taking us along on her academic research with the encyclopedia she is currently writing about them and her experiences with them? Oh, what more could I possibly ask for friends? Actually the life i wish i could have if i was around in 1909. This is also told epistolary style, with a lot of field notes, but a lot of stories, and some unexpected entries as well. But this was just a book that really worked for me and my reading wheelhouse (and heart). There is a little romance too that is also very sweet and again… the field notes are just so good. We also get to travel to some fae realms to solve a mystery that did get a little dark - so please use caution. Like, there are a lot of cozy vibes and moments and settings (omg did i love the market too) in this, but, again, there are a lot of darker themes and the story takes showing the dark faery side of things! Emily is not a 'people person,' to say the least, and her relations with the village people have taken a turn for the worse when her charming colleague Wendell Bambleby arrives. Wendell wants to collaborate with Emily. He could definitely help her career but is also a bit lazy and too charismatic for her, so Emily is constantly in conflict with her new roommate. It's obvious that she's in denial about her feelings for him as she watches a parade of Scandinavian beauties hover around him.

Cosy fantasy but with an academic feel? With footnotes giving us the research and published notes on faeries and the story itself is told as Emily writing it as her research diary, it has a distinct academic feel. Which worked for me what it was. Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries is a charminglywhimsical delight, saturated with faerie magic and the equally wonderful magic of humanity. This is going to be one of my regular rereads. Five dazzling, gladdening stars.” —India Holton, author of The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels Emily Wilde is a professor at Cambridge University specializing in studying faeries. On sabbatical, she travels to Ljosland (somewhere in Norway near the Arctic Circle, I believe) to study the Hidden Ones who live there. So it was boring, dry, overwritten, and I didn't like the characters. I gave it at a low 3 rating right now because I'm not sure it's low enough to warrant something in the 2 range, but I did not have a very good time with this and I'm glad it's over. Bummer. The setting. Everything about the village of Hrafnsvik and the little cottage felt cozy and whimsical. Great atmosphere.She also has a new project to focus on: a map of the realms of faerie. While she is preparing her research, Bambleby lands her in trouble yet again, when assassins sent by his mother invade Cambridge. Now Bambleby and Emily are on another adventure, this time to the picturesque Austrian Alps, where Emily believes they may find the door to Bambleby’s realm and the key to freeing him from his family’s dark plans.



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