Title: Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales
Series: Emily Wilde #3
Author: Heather Fawcett
BOOKS IN THE SERIES
Encyclopedia of Faeries – my review here!
Map of the Otherlands – my review here!
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Emily Wilde has spent her life studying faeries. A renowned dryadologist, she has documented hundreds of species of Folk in her Encyclopaedia of Faeries. Now she is about to embark on her most dangerous academic project studying the inner workings of a faerie realm-as its queen.
Along with her former academic rival-now fiancé-the dashing and mercurial Wendell Bambleby, Emily is immediately thrust into the deadly intrigues of Faerie as the two of them seize the throne of Wendell’s long-lost kingdom, which Emily finds a beautiful nightmare, filled with scholarly treasures.
Emily has been obsessed with faerie stories her entire life, but at first she feels as ill-suited to Faerie as she did to the mortal world-how could an unassuming scholar like herself pass for a queen? Yet there is little time to settle in-Wendell’s murderous stepmother has placed a deadly curse upon the land before vanishing without a trace. It will take all of Wendell’s magic-and Emily’s knowledge of stories-to unravel the mystery before they lose everything they hold dear.
Wendell, now King of Faerie, and his new fiance, Emily, are going back to Faerie to reclaim his Kingdom. But the old Queen is still there and has caused a blight upon the land, so it’s up to Emily and Wendell to solve this as per their MO!
Let me get this out the way first….and I hate to say this….this book didn’t quite have the draw of the other books, but I am still in love with Emily and Wendell!
Now the great bits!
Firstly, Emily’s dry wit made me laugh as per usual when it comes to Wendell…..’Wendell had gone back to staring at the door— savouring the moment, I suppose. I wondered if he would give a speech or something.’
Also Shadow has a new so-not-friend, Orga the murder cat!!! Fabulous!
Emily’s character growth in this series has been immense and I loved seeing her totally give in to her feelings for Wendell and he gives her every freedom she needs – I love him and his needlework skills!
I don’t know if this is the last book in this series but, not going to lie, I do hope that Ariadne takes over the reigns now and finds her Faerie Prince!
Don’t forget you can read my reviews from the previous books in the series ➡️
Encyclopedia of Faeries – here!
Map of the Otherlands – here!
