Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries: the Sunday Times Bestseller

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The depth of conflicts is at the level of a young novel, immature and naive, and the resolution of these is beyond lackluster. The story follows Professor Emily Wilde, a dryadologist, on fieldwork out in Ljosland (which appears to be a fake Scandi island, using the name of a real town in Norway) to uncover details of a particular type of faery for her great work – the first real encyclopaedia of all faeries. especially when compared to Emily) The only thing I can't comprehend is why he would love Emily at all.

The Folk were of another world, with its own rules and customs—and to a child who always felt ill-suited to her own world, the lure was irresistible. It also means that Emily can never be annoyed at him for very long either – which is obviously exasperating for someone with her curmudgeonly nature. Unfailingly whimsical and with a kind of sardonic playfulness at every turn that brings many a smile to your face, it also gets a bit caught up in its rather elaborate example of a first person narrative, which while endearing, sometimes makes the plot hard to follow. The story mainly features Emily and Wendell Bambleby, another professor from Cambridge who invites himself along on her expedition and who she is frustratedly annoyed at because she’s sure he’s trying to take credit for her work.Bambelby and I entertained ourselves at the cottage by coaxing a recalcitrant Shadow into his new raiment, which was patterned with flowers and equipped with a jaunty hood. It's an isolated island that’s about as far north as a person can go without hitting the North Pole.

It is one of the defining features of Cambridge (and Oxford), and anyone there, or who once was there, will have a collegiate affiliation that will, in some ways, be a significant part of how they identify themselves, especially amongst other Cambridge people. She’s a character that’s interesting and unique, and not typical of what is usually written for a female character. The joy of this is the more I read, the more clear it becomes why Wendell spends so much time around Emily.Academic grumps they may be, but these two have a friendship that makes me wish for someone that would battle faerie assassins for me. Because readers often ask me about my favourite books and authors, I'm aiming to use this page as a place to collect all of my recommendations. However, she wasn't aware that it would be so rustic that she would need to chop her own wood to keep warm. This is exactly my kind of book–steeped in fairy folklore where the fae are whimsical and clever and full of myths and wickedness and tricks and utterly unreal levels of magic.

The villagers all coalesced into a single hivemind individual, and as a reader I missed the experience of exploring an isla But for all her academic achievements, Emily has never been good at people, preferring the company of her dog, Shadow, and the strange Fair Folk to other humans.

I recommend this book to anyone who loves light fantasy, great characters, great world building and very good writing. This book is utterly charming, although it certainly has dark elements so be aware of that, but the writing is so good. I have no idea if they are real stories or not but they are amazing, though they would be even more impressive if the author had come up with them. It’s obvious Emily and Wendell are meant to be each other’s love interests but the way the romance developed felt very strange.

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! It really stopped me from being able to engage with the story, because it just constantly felt like the other characters were taking advantage of Emily’s ignorance (and because she was so book smart, being a professor and all, that definitely felt like her lack of social skills was played for laughs). Forget dark academia: give me instead this kind of winter-sunshined, sharp-tongued, and footnoted academia, full of field trips and grumpy romance and malevolent faeries. I will be proceeding with my breakdown as if she is a neurotypical woman with obvious social anxiety as the text suggests. When I first started reading Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries I was expecting an imaginative and adventure-filled story.For the most part I enjoyed it, but I didn't like the direction the story took in the last 100 pages or so. I feel like this review may ruffle some feathers but we all have to keep it real and this is just my opinion but if you loved this book I am genuinely happy for you but I suggest you keep scrolling bc I am going to go there.