Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries

 

I don't know why I don't read more fantasy novels. I always enjoy them. I'll have to make more of an effort to seek them out. On the plus side, this was the first book in a series, so I have more to look forward to. Huzzah!

Emily Wilde is a professor at Cambridge who studies the Fae. She's quite the expert, having traveled all over the world and met many Folk. 

Emily and her dog, Shadow, go to a cold, remote village in the North so she can catalog the legends of that area and hopefully meet some of their Folk. A few days after they arrive, Emily's colleague from Cambridge comes to town. Wendell Bambleby is very charming and handsome and easily wins the townspeople over. Emily has long suspected that he's fae (he is, we find out pretty early on, so it's not too much of a spoiler). She reluctantly lets Wendell help her with her goal after he dangles a prize in front of her: coauthorship of a paper to be delivered at a prestigious conference on Folk. Emily never gets invited to these conferences so she agrees. 

It was a fun story and Fawcett did an amazing job of spinning a world of faeries. It was very vivid and enchanting. I thoroughly enjoyed it.