Title: Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

Series: Emily Wilde #2

Author: Heather Fawcett

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.

This book certainly did not suffer from middle book syndrome – it was totally fab!

I was so glad to be back with the grumpy/sunshine pair, Emily and Wendell and of course, Shadow! There’s also 2 new additions to the gang, Emily’s niece Ariadne and Dr Farris Rose!

Emily finds herself on another quest and this time to help Wendell and also to complete her book on the map of faeire realms but it doesn’t all go to plan!

Although historical and cozy still, I think this book was a bit darker than the first book (which I was here for!) and there was more romance – Wendell stole my heart in book 1 and he kept hold of it for this book as well!

This was such an addictive read and I especially loved the footnotes of Emily’s journal and, of course, Wendell’s contribution!

Book 3 please (and I’d love more Poe!!)