I read Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries in two days. Since I didn’t want to start a new book until I caught up on reviews, I decided to read it again. It took only two days to read it a second time. What I’m saying is that I enjoyed this book so much I read it twice in four days.
Written in the style of a personal journal, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries is an engaging fantasy set in an alternative 1909 where fae, fairies, Fair Folk ,etc. live secretively among us. Socially awkward but brilliant Dr. Emily Wilde, professor of dryadology at Cambridge, is on a mission to write the first encyclopedia of fairies. She has just arrived on the small island Ljosland, at the edge of the Arctic, to also be the first at studying and documenting their local Folk, the Hidden Ones, to include in her book. She is soon joined by her frustrating department companion, the renowned Dr. Wendell Bambleby, charmer of men and women alike. What starts as simple research turns into a quest to unravel a fairy mystery.
