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Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
I want to start by thanking NetGalley and Little Brown Book for the eARC. I am extremely grateful for the opportunity to allow me to review the book. So, without further ado…
⭐⭐⭐ /5
The first thing I’ve got to say is that this wasn’t a book for me. There’s nothing wrong with it, it just didn’t appeal to me. But let’s start by saying t what the book is really about. Emily Wilde is a Cambridge professor; “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”. So, she heads to Hrafnsvik where she will meet new folks alongside “her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby”.
In terms of narration, for someone who usually hates to read books narrated as journals, it was a nice surprise to actually like it. On another note, I didn’t like how little the reader could appreciate action, which is one of the reasons I tend to dislike journal narrations. On the other hand, I didn’t get to connect much with the characters. And the action was interesting but it just came very much at the end and very easily resolved.
This book was too slow for my liking and there were very few descriptions that really caught my attention; hence the three stars. But like I mentioned before, this wasn’t a book for me; just like I didn’t enjoy the humour of the novel, I didn’t particularly like the characters.
That being said, if you are into slow cozy fantasy books with low stakes and light romance this is your book.
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