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 infuriatingly charming fellow scholar Wendell Bambleby.
Because Bambleby is more than brilliant and unbearably handsome. 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. - from Netgalley.com
I received this eARC from Netgalley.com and am providing an unbiased review.
This is the second book in the Emily Wilde series, continuing the adventures of a college professor that is collecting data about things fae. The story starts off a short time from the ending of the first book, where it was revealed Brambleby is a faerie king and has proposed marriage to Emily. So with this in mind, they are off to the Alps to try to find a nexus to map Faerie, and try to find the kingdom Brambleby is from, to stop the plans of his family.
Overall this was an enjoyable story. Written in a way that was somewhat professor-ish (loved the footnotes and etc throughout) yet easily understood. It definitely is a different look at a story of fae, and their interactions with normal folk. The characters have gotten some more depth to them, though in Brambleby's case, I was sort of ...meh. He seemed more absent-minded and not 'paying attention' as he had in the first tale. I kind of lost interest in the other half of the main character. Emily's character was quite has again shown her to be solid-minded and self-sufficient, even with trying to follow fae etiquette, and the constant wheedling of Brambleby and his marriage proposal. Well written tale I would recommend for anyone.
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