Emily Wilde is THE neurodivergent rep queen. Her parents find her weird and off-putting. She gets to a new town and immediately offends them. She has to constantly remind herself to show empathy. She pulled a faerie king with the power of autistic rizz. Truly the representation we all deserve.

"this is why I work alone. I could have been out of the door with Wendell already"

Can we please talk about how Emily, who values her space above everything, and is the most introverted to borderline antisocial person in existence, is so comfortable with Wendell that working with him is synonymous to working alone for her?

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I absolutely adored this sequel in the series and can't recommend the overall series enough, it's everything you could want!

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)

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When is Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Walruses coming out?

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There is nothing trivial about good coffee.

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.

Oh to be a student of dryadology at Cambridge. Your professors regularly get kidnapped by faeries. One of them is the hardest grader you’ve ever met. She fails your essay the same week your cat dies but gives you extra credit because you cry in her office for an hour. Another professor will give his TA’s co-author credit on his papers but it’s said he treats them like slaves. He gives the most longwinded, non-sensical lectures you’ve ever heard and you can’t quite figure out what his class is about (rumor has it he’s a faerie?) You’re pretty sure the aforementioned two professors are in love.

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The ONLY thing that has ever hit me in the deep, warm longing that Howl’s Moving Castle always has is the Emily Wilde series. I can’t explain it but it is one of the most charming series I have ever read. I will sing it’s praises from the mountains. I want to put it in my rib cage and let it sink into my bones. There are plenty of stories where the fairy prince falls in love with the mortal woman but none have hit like this. The feeling of being slightly to the left of normal society and never fitting in, only to find you fit perfectly in what exists slightly to the left. Academia but it’s not dark, The Ancient Magus’ Bride but without the depression. Characters that before entering anything romantic have accidentally woven their lives together so intrinsically and platonically that they incidentally refer to each other as extensions of themselves. The danger that walks alongside the beauty of the Otherworld and the acceptance that you cannot have one without the other.

A romance with characters in their 30s, written with all the lovely charm reminiscent of YA novels. I could not recommend it more.

I was just thinking that Wendell Bambleby has some serious Howell Jenkins vibes going on, and then I got to this paragraph.

Of course “Wendell Bambleby” chose that name for himself

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