Rating: ★★★★
Audience: Fantasy Romance
Length: 342 pages
Author: Heather Fawcett
Publisher: Del Rey
Release Date: January 16th, 2024
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BOOK SUMMARY:

When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde must uncover their secrets before it’s too late in this heartwarming, enchanting second installment of the Emily Wilde series.
 
Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore—she just wrote the world’s first comprehensive of encylopaedia of faeries. She’s learned many of the secrets of the Hidden Folk on her adventures . . . and also from her fellow scholar and former rival, Wendell Bambleby.
 
Because Bambleby is more than infuriatingly charming. He’s an exiled faerie king on the run from his murderous mother, and in search of a door back to his realm. So despite Emily’s feelings for Bambleby, she’s not ready to accept his proposal of marriage. Loving one of the Fair Folk comes with secrets and danger.
 
And she also has a new project to focus a map of the realms of faerie. While she is preparing her research, Bambleby lands her in trouble yet again, when assassins sent by Bambleby’s mother invade Cambridge. Now Bambleby and Emily are on another adventure, this time to the picturesque Austrian Alps, where Emily believes they may find the door to Bambley’s realm, and the key to freeing him from his family’s dark plans.
 
But with new relationships for the prickly Emily to navigate and dangerous Folk lurking in every forest and hollow, Emily must unravel the mysterious workings of faerie doors, and of her own heart.

EVEN BETTER.

I was one of the few that only liked book one and I loved this one even more. I felt drawn into the world and plot. And once again that banter between Emily and Wendell was still top notch. I like Emily’s voice a lot and her dry wit throughout.

I think with this being the second book I also enjoyed the writing style more as well. The story was fairly engaging and was moving just enough but also had those nice cozy vibes that I know this series is known for.

I was hoping for a little bit more romance? I felt like that was missing and the few pieces we did get seemed rushed.

It looks like there’s going to be more in this series though so I’m excited to continue and look forward to what happens next.

Overall audience notes:

• Fantasy Romance
• Language: low
• Romance: closed door
• Violence: moderate

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