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quillpunkTitle: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Author: Heather Fawcett
Genre: Historical Fantasy
Review: If left to my own devices, I probably wouldn’t have picked up this book. But I saw good things about it, my library had it and I went sure, I’ll give it a try.
No regrets. It’s very good.
It’s probably not the kind of book I’ll feel like rereading; it’s not quite up my alley. Genre-wise, I’m kind of iffy on it, and books with female POV’s are hit and miss for me. It worked this time, but I don’t really want to revisit it, and I’m not sure I’m going to read the sequel. Maybe when some time has passed!
Emily Wilde is a professor working on an Encyclopaedia of Faeries, and she sets out to cold lands far away from her comfortable office to complete it. Except, horror of horror, her rival Wendell (who thinks they are the best of friends, which I find hilarious) unexpectedly traipses right after her. Together with Wendell and her dog Shadow, they set out to solve the riddle that’s plaguing this otherwise idyllic snowy village; why do the village girls keep being stolen by the fae?
I was confused for a moment; I thought it was going to be a rivals-to-romance kind of story based on skimming the blurb, which was not what happened. They’re not even rivals! I don’t know where I got that from! And there wasn’t much romance at all, which is the part that made me hesitate the most to read, because I just didn’t want romance out of it, if that makes sense. But it definitely delivered on the mystery and the question of *how is Emily going to get out of this*, and I thought the world-building was very interesting, and the footnotes very fun.
Wendell is lovely and I high-key adored him, and his journal entries were the best. It didn’t end up being much romance at all, which I thought worked out great, but the romance that was in there I thought worked well, and I can see the sense in it, to put it very coldly. And I honestly thought that Wendell’s… you know, that question he asks (I’m trying to avoid spoilers!) was kind of lovely and I appreciated his reaction to Emily’s answer.
The way the situation with the fae played out overall was very interesting and all the villager’s were colorful and enjoyable even when they were mean and off-putting. Emily’s actions managed to stride the line of making perfect sense in the moment and yet being a giant mistake in hindsight pretty well for me, and overall it was a compelling read with interesting characters and world-building.
Wendell was definitely my favorite part, though.
I definitely recommend it!
Author: Heather Fawcett
Genre: Historical Fantasy
Review: If left to my own devices, I probably wouldn’t have picked up this book. But I saw good things about it, my library had it and I went sure, I’ll give it a try.
No regrets. It’s very good.
It’s probably not the kind of book I’ll feel like rereading; it’s not quite up my alley. Genre-wise, I’m kind of iffy on it, and books with female POV’s are hit and miss for me. It worked this time, but I don’t really want to revisit it, and I’m not sure I’m going to read the sequel. Maybe when some time has passed!
Emily Wilde is a professor working on an Encyclopaedia of Faeries, and she sets out to cold lands far away from her comfortable office to complete it. Except, horror of horror, her rival Wendell (who thinks they are the best of friends, which I find hilarious) unexpectedly traipses right after her. Together with Wendell and her dog Shadow, they set out to solve the riddle that’s plaguing this otherwise idyllic snowy village; why do the village girls keep being stolen by the fae?
I was confused for a moment; I thought it was going to be a rivals-to-romance kind of story based on skimming the blurb, which was not what happened. They’re not even rivals! I don’t know where I got that from! And there wasn’t much romance at all, which is the part that made me hesitate the most to read, because I just didn’t want romance out of it, if that makes sense. But it definitely delivered on the mystery and the question of *how is Emily going to get out of this*, and I thought the world-building was very interesting, and the footnotes very fun.
Wendell is lovely and I high-key adored him, and his journal entries were the best. It didn’t end up being much romance at all, which I thought worked out great, but the romance that was in there I thought worked well, and I can see the sense in it, to put it very coldly. And I honestly thought that Wendell’s… you know, that question he asks (I’m trying to avoid spoilers!) was kind of lovely and I appreciated his reaction to Emily’s answer.
The way the situation with the fae played out overall was very interesting and all the villager’s were colorful and enjoyable even when they were mean and off-putting. Emily’s actions managed to stride the line of making perfect sense in the moment and yet being a giant mistake in hindsight pretty well for me, and overall it was a compelling read with interesting characters and world-building.
Wendell was definitely my favorite part, though.
I definitely recommend it!