soo you're saying if i can get a doctorate degree in all things fairy i can live my best like emily? I really enjoyed a lot of this – it felt like it was written in a way that was accurate to its point in history and the fantasy portion of it was very interesting. The strong feeling of time and place and the enchantment of beautiful setting is what the period fantasy is about, and I was ready for it.

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries enchants with a cozy atmosphere and scholarly inquiry into the world of the fae. Combining fantasy, mystery, history, and romance elements, this is a one-of-a-kind story, unlike anything I've read concerning faerie so far.

The influence of Bambleby only enhances this, but as it goes on the plot gets somewhat lost underneath all the academic technobabble, so it does not manage to fire on all possible cylinders. But the more faeries that come up from under the snow, the more a chilling mystery unfolds within the cottages of Ljosland. FYI for romance readers: this is a historical fantasy with (very enjoyable) romantic elements, not a romance.

The plot moves at a glacial pace for a book that's only 300 pages long and I didn't care enough about the main characters for them to carry me along. especially when compared to Emily) The only thing I can't comprehend is why he would love Emily at all. But as Emily gets closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones - the most elusive of all faeries - she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? The writing was great, I really liked the personal feel of the writing and how easy it was to follow.

Missing her and worrying about her at Cambridge, Wendell decides to assist Emily on the encyclopedia. Academic grumps they may be, but these two have a friendship that makes me wish for someone that would battle faerie assassins for me.

Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. At a later stage in the book, there is an attempt to show her having actual feelings but in actuality it's just another transactional response. Science Fiction and Fantasy is becoming increasingly popular within mainstream readership and Orbit is at the forefront of the action, staff in hand. Emily Wilde is a character in where you’re not quite sure what to think about her in the beginning and by the end of the book, you absolutely love her. The action was always diminished to a summarization, eliminating a lot of the stakes, and the dialogue always seemed out of place.

So to go through a whole novel about a character who has such fond and constant feelings about Cambridge, and for her to never mention her own college, nor her friend/rival/person’s college, or even if they’re at the same one, is deeply bizarre, and really throws off immersion in the story once noticed. It’s written in the style of field notes, if such notes were written by someone who has a compulsion to log absolutely everything in a first person journalistic way.