Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
A prickly Cambridge academic goes to a frozen village to finish her field guide to the fae, and her insufferably charming colleague follows her there. Written as her journal, which makes the romance funnier and considerably more painful. On the House's scale it rates 1 for spice (a door, closed), 4 for how much of the book is the romance, and 5 for craft. ACOTAR readers who want the fae bargains with wit instead of spice.
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How it rates
- Author
- Heather Fawcett
- Series
- Emily Wilde, book 1 of 3 · series complete
- Spice
- Spice 1 out of 5, A door, closed1/5 · A door, closed
- Romance
- 4/5
- Plot
- 4/5
- Worldbuilding
- 5/5
- Darkness
- 3/5
- Writing craft
- 5/5
- Burn
- Slow burn
- Point of view
- first person
- Ending
- Happy ever after
- Setting
- Hrafnsvik, a village at the edge of the fae realms
- Audience
- Adult
- Pages
- 325
On the spice rating Closed door entirely. The most explicit thing in it is a dance. How the scale works.
Content warnings peril, child abduction, cold-weather injury.
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