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Heather Fawcett utterly enchanted me with this first novel in her Emily Wilde series.
Much like her protagonist, a brilliant yet fundamentally flawed professor of Dryadology, I felt like I fell through a portal into an imaginative and provocative land.
Charming yet not twee, funny yet not without gravitas. From the setting description to the characters, the world became so real to me I didn’t want to leave it. Fortunately, there is a sequel coming!
8 authors picked Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • 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.
“A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic.”—Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
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…