The buoyant end promises further thrilling adventures filled with magic, fun, humour and hopefully even more of that delicious will-they-won’t-they romance. Fawcett not only gives us our two main characters, but also a standout cast of side characters that I defy you not to fall in love with. It's also narrated as a diary, which I like, but it always makes me wonder how a person could possibly remember their day-to-day in such detail. Perhaps it is always restful to be around someone who does not expect anything from you beyond what is in your nature.

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.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 this heartwarming and enchanting fantasy. He pokes fun at the FMC for traits which I read as marking her as clearly autistic-coded (largely in not understanding the common social cues and rituals of those around her) and especially early in the book it gave me the distinct impression of laughing *at* her rather than *with* her. She likes adventure, discovering anything she can about the faeries, and tends to put herself in dangerous situations. But anytime he was on the page it was like a breath of fresh air and the best part of the book was those few times we got his POV. Fawcett’s faeries aren’t all pretty and delicate like Barker’s The Fairies of Winter – many are quite peculiar and unappealing in their descriptions – but they still share the same mischievous, elusive spirit that shines through those classic illustrations.

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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. She has a no nonsense approach to things, quite often walking into potentially difficult or threatening situations with quiet confidence.Today’s review is for a super sweet and cosy little fantasy, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett. One of the few bits of genuine historical accuracy that remains in the book is the entitlement obvious in Emily’s attitude towards the people who form the basis of her study.

Reading Emily thoughts is refreshing, Shadow is adorable and Em and Wendell are opposite but they make an amazing pair and complemented each other amazingly! It was never clear why Emily was rivals with Wendell Bambleby, and he was helpful to her throughout the book and did little things to make her time in this isolated town easier. I loved the cosy village scenes, and the discovery of new fairies, and the pauses for Wendell shenanigans and the adventurous twist at the end. I sincerely hope that Emily's cold and narrow-minded character was not meant to represent a community of diverse individuals because this representation would have been more harmful than helpful.But it isn’t, and quite frankly, even she, our first person narrator telling us her actual thoughts, feels distant and hard to grasp. It's an isolated island that’s about as far north as a person can go without hitting the North Pole. And it’s trying to do the sort of cosy, romantic fantasy that is currently enjoying a surge of popularity, so it’s not even as though it deserves points for originality.