Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands
Book 2 of the Emily Wilde Series
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4.7 • 22 Ratings
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Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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.
AN ELLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
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.
Book Two of the Emily Wilde Series
Don’t miss any of Heather Fawcett’s charming Emily Wilde series:
EMILY WILDE’S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES • EMILY WILDE’S MAP OF THE OTHERLANDS • EMILY WILDE’S COMPENDIUM OF LOST TALES
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in September 1910, seven months after the conclusion of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries, the entrancing second volume in Fawcett's Emily Wilde series focuses on her protagonist's attempts to locate a faerie nexus in the alpine village of St. Liesl. Emily's interest in the cozy-yet-sinister village is not strictly professional: though she aspires to publish a map of Faerie kingdoms, she also wants to help her colleague and love interest, Wendell Bambleby, find the mystical door leading back to his home realm. Joining them are straitlaced Farris Rose, the head of Cambridge's dryadology department who is constantly threatening to fire them both, and Emily's enthusiastic but inexperienced niece, Ariadne. The presence of these characters helps contextualize Emily's personality, and her grumpiness plays better here than in the first installment. With Wendall's stepmother out for his blood, their search becomes even more urgent. Along the way, they must rescue two other dryadologists who have been trapped in time. Fawcett handily expands the scope of the series, building on all that worked in the first volume and largely doing away with anything that didn't. Upping the danger and the darkness while still retaining all the beauty of the prose, this takes Emily's story to new heights.
Customer Reviews
Wonderful Fantasy Novel
"Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands" is the sequel to "Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries".
Once again the book features Emily Wilde, the faerie scholar from Cambridge's Department of Dryadology, Professor Wendell Brambleby, erstwhile Faerie King and hopeful fiancé, plus an assortment of the Fae - as well as newcomers Ariadne (Emily's niece and fellow scholar) and Department Head Professor Rose, at times gregarious and obstreporous.
It appears that Wendell, still awaiting Emily's response to his proposal of marriage, in the course of his birthday celebrations, has been poisoned ('and on my Birthday!'), on top of being the target of his (wicked) stepmother who had his whole family killed and took over the kingdom; unable to locate his door back into Faerie, and on the constant lookout for assassins, the quartet take off for the Austrian Alps, in hopes of locating a nexus - the meeting of a number of doors into the faerie lands and simultaneously curing Wendell of his poison.
As in the previous book, there are a number of adventures as well as calamities (one such ending with a quite bizarre surgery), culminating with Emily once again venturing off on a lone quest. And we meet again several characters from the previous book.
One of the main things that endears me to these books is the premise that mortal men (and women) and Faerie are constantly interacting and that there is no 'secret world', although Faerie is still hidden from view. But everyday encounters are just that - everyday occurrences.
In the end, Emily Wilde does what she always does in order to save those whom she loves, at the same time vanquishing the dastardly and safely navigating the Hidden World. I look forward to the next book in Emily's saga.
Recommended - but please read the first book.