Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wild Series Book 1) by Heather Fawcett
320 Pages
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, Del Rey
Release Date: January 10, 2023
Fiction, General Fiction, Sci Fi, Faeries, Changling, Brownies
Emily Wild is a professor at Cambridge and an expert on Faeries. She travels far north to Krafnsvik to study their local faerie folklore and culture. She arrives with her big black dog, Shadow and offends the matriarch of the village on her first outing. The cottage she is staying is barely habitable and she is not cut out for country life. When her friend and fellow colleague, Wendell Bambleby shows up, life begins to get very interesting.
The story has a steady pace, the characters are very developed, and it is written in the third person point of view. I love Emily and Wendell. Their personalities feed off each other. Where Emily is so gruff, Wendell is charismatic. The author has a way of writing that makes the reader feel the cold weather of the village and the emotions of the characters. I will be watching for the next installment in the series. If you like folklore and faerie tales, you will enjoy this book.
