If cozy fantasy academia was a genre this book series is it!

This is the sequel to Emily Wildes Encyclopaedia of Faeries, which was one of my favourite books of 2023.

I won’t go much into plot details for either books as I think you need to into this series not knowing. Just know it’s a magical historical fantasy with light academia.

Emily is a character I really relate to. As an avid diary keeper, I love reading her adventures in her own voice, the way she talks to the reader trying to explain what is happening. The footnotes are a brilliant idea, showing her passion for her career and how it is deep part of her character. No matter the drama she wants us to understand.

Book two takes us on a wintery adventure to Austria, with friends old and new, on a search for a very important door.

Heather Fawcett is so skilled at writing the more sinister side of fae, and this book introduces some very nightmare inducing creatures.

Emily and Wendell are such incredible characters to read about and I will be sad when this series ends with book 3.

Book two kept the vibes of book one. If you love Half a Soul and Howls Moving Castle, read this series now!

🍄Tropes🍄

Faeries

Light academia

Reverse grumpy sunshine

Clever woman charming man romance 😂

Thank you to Little Brown, Orbit and NetGalley for an ARC copy of this book. All opinions are my own honest opinions.

(And I have already purchased this book I. Hardback too!)