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Cover of Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands

by Heather Fawcett

🌶️fade to black·spoiler·Emily Wilde #2

Why Read This?

A cozy academic adventure with the most charming fae king in fantasy — Wendell Bambleby will live rent-free in your head while Emily grumpily solves faerie mysteries in the Austrian Alps.

Synopsis

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 who just wrote the world’s first comprehensive encyclopaedia of faeries. She’s learned many of the secrets of the Hidden Ones 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. And 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 dangers. She also has a new project to focus on: a map of the realms of faerie. While she is preparing her research, Bambleby lands her in trouble yet again, when assassins sent by his 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 Bambleby’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.

At a Glance

4.25 ★ Goodreads
Spice Level🌶️fade to black
Endingspoiler
PairingM/F
Romance Pacingslow burn

Top Tropes

grumpy sunshineslow burnhidden identity

Mood

whimsicalmagicaladventurousromanticatmospheric

Book Details

Goodreads Rating

4.25 ★

Page Count

368 pages

Published

2024

Primary Genre

Cozy Fantasy

Pairing

M/F

POV

First Person

Romance Pacing

Slow Burn

Cliffhanger

spoiler

Audiobook

Available

Yes

Format

Dual Narration

Narrator

Ell Potter|Michael Dodds

Narrator Count

Dual

Tropes

RomanceMagicActionAngstWorld
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Mood & Vibe

Mood

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Characters

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Spice Details 🌶️

Alluded to only. Romantic tension and emotional intimacy carry the love story with zero on-page explicit content. sign in to unlock

violencekidnappingdeath of a loved oneanimal deathmurdertorturebody horrorstalkingfirepoisoning

World & Setting

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Reading Context

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