Reading Skywards – Your Friendly Bookshelf

INFORMATION ABOUT THIS BOOK
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Del Rey
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January  10, 2023
Format:  Hardcover, Paperback, audiobook, and ebook
Print length ‏ : ‎ 326 pages
Genre:  Fantasy Action & Adventure

MY PERSONAL OPINION OF “EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES” BY HEATHER FAWCETT

I got the book from Barnes and Noble in a “Buy one get 50% off of a second book” promotion that they usually have. I have been eyeing this book for what seems like forever, and I jumped at the opportunity to buy it during the sale. It was a Barnes and Noble special edition which was a plus.

The book draws you in immediately and it is fascinating how the subject of the study of faeries is just… common, in a world in which humans and faeries interact with each other, sometimes amicable and sometimes… terrifying. The book is packed with interesting info, so it is always fascinating and never dull, then is the action, which is fun and scary at the same time.

The few footnotes add to further belief in this world in which faeries are a field of study.
This is book one of the Emily Wilde series, and the second one is already out (and in my TBR).

PREMISE OF THE BOOK AS FOUND IN AMAZON / GOODREADS:

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.

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, muddle 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 mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? To find the answer, she’ll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all—her own heart..

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Bibliography:

• Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands 
• The Grace of Wild Things
• Even the Darkest Stars
• All the Wandering Light
• The Language of Ghosts
• The Islands of Elsewhere
• The School Between Winter and Fairyland
• Ember and the Ice Dragons