Wendell any time he wakes up and Emily is gone

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

This journal serves two purposes: to aid my recollection when it comes time to formally compile my field notes, and to provide a record for those scholars who come after me should I be captured by the Folk. Verba volant, scripta manent.

emily wilde's encyclopaedia of fairies; heather fawcett

Other women snore, or talk in their sleep. I don't recall ever being woken by the sound of vigorous pencil scratching.

YALL i just finished reading "emily wildes encyclopedia of faeries" and i loved it and it really reminded me of "howl's moving castle" by diana wynne-jones. especially the love interest. nothing beats an egomaniac charming magical long haired blonde man. howl + wendell are such twinsies and i am LOOKING FOR MORE FANTASY/FICTION ROMANCE featuring love interests like them!!!!!! pleasepleasepleaseplease PLEASE send reccs of any similar books that come to mind!!! 😊😊🙏🙏

Faeries and Footnotes: The Nerdy Fun of Scholarly Worldbuilding

I have an affection for stories that take a scholarly, dare I say nerdy, approach to their fantasy elements. I’ve recently devoured both books in Heather Fawcett’s Emily Wilde series, which follows a prickly academic on a field trip into Faerie, filling her journal with footnotes and references to in-universe research on magic along the way. My favourite character in Freya Marske’s The Last Binding trilogy is Edwin Courcey, who helps deliver much of the setting’s lore and magic system via his ceaseless curiosity and very academic and technical approach to how magic works. The scholarly book-within-a-book about portal worlds in The Ten Thousand Doors of January made me whoop for joy.

I can probably trace this back to reading Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell at a formative stage of my undergrad studies, at which point I reckon it did something to my brain chemistry. But what, exactly, is the appeal of a series that looks at its magic through the lens of research, and with all the scientific technicalities and academic in-fighting that come with that? It does something unique and very fun to the way these fictional worlds are built, and I want to play with that here.

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Can someone do Wendell × Emily please

one thing I really like about Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries is that they have none of the period typical sexism or homophobia. It's 1910? Doesn't matter, the lesbians are getting married, good for them!!! Women can be scholars and no one says anything about it. Slay.

First day in town

Anyway one of my fave things about the Emily Wilde series is any time someone’s like “Emily is right” and Emily’s like “I know I am???” Like just completely matter of factly without any pretentiousness I love a woman who means zero harm but cannot read social cues to save her life (LITERALLY)

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands

But the reality is that one would have to be an utter idiot to marry one of the Folk. There are perhaps a handful of stories in which such a union ends well and a mountain of them in which it ends in madness or an untimely and unpleasant death. I am also, of course, constantly aware of the ridiculousness of my being the object of a marriage offering by a faerie monarch.

IM NOT EVEN DONE WITH MAP OF THE OTHERLANDS YET BUT I NEED THE 3RD EMILY WILDE BOOK YESTERDAY 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

If I take a shot every time Emily romanticizes about Wendell's GOLDEN HAIR, I'd be very very drunk.

(love that for her, btw)

spent most of today copying one of my favourite scenes from emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries into my reading journal

I loved him, and I suspected that I would grow to love this beautiful, horrifying place if given the chance. I wanted the chance. I wanted Faerie, its every secret and its every door.

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I adored this cozy, atmospheric read from start to finish! 

“Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries” follows Emily Wilde, a genius scholar and meticulous researcher, as she journeys to a small town to write the world’s first encyclopaedia on faerie folklore. Not too long after, her handsome and charming academic rival Wendell Bambleby arrives and gets in the middle of her research. As she gets closer to discovering the secrets of the hidden ones, she begins to question who he truly is and what he really wants. 

Epistolary novels (works of fiction written in the form of journal entries, letters, or other documents) are few and far between these days, so I am ecstatic I love this one as much as I do! I enjoy this style of writing because it reveals so much in the way of characterization. For example, Emily’s thorough account of her time in the field complete with footnotes shows just how dedicated she is to her research and studies. Her entries also showcase some of her quirks—like how she prefers the company of books, her dog, and the fae to other people—which made me love her all the more. 

Wendell Bambleby is one of my favorite characters of all time. Seriously. He begins as Emily’s academic rival, but throughout the novel he wins her, and the reader, over with his irresistible charm. He is the sunshine to Emily’s grumpy and his attachment to her is incredibly endearing. Additionally, his good-natured teasing, sewing hobby, and neat freak personality, keep the book light while also making his character stand out.

The romantic relationship that develops between Emily and Wendell is definitely a subplot, but I actually appreciated that it wasn’t the book’s focus because Emily wouldn’t be Emily if her research didn’t come first. I enjoyed getting the opportunity to explore her brilliant mind and absorb her vast knowledge on the fae through her journal. 

Fawcett really created something special and I know I’m not alone in saying that I cannot wait for what comes next!

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