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Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales
- Subgenre
- romantasy
- Edition year
- 2025-02-11
- Rating
- ★ 4.0 · 169 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
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Renowned dryadologist Emily Wilde, alongside her former academic rival and now fiancé Wendell Bambleby—a fae prince—seizes the throne of his long-lost Faerie kingdom. Thrust into deadly court intrigues, Emily must pass as queen and unravel a deadly curse placed on the land by Wendell's murderous stepmother, drawing on Wendell's magic and her own scholarly knowledge of faerie stories to save everything they hold dear.
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- Fae Romance: “about a curmudgeonly scholar of folklore and the fae prince she loves” source
- Curse: “Wendell's murderous stepmother has placed a deadly curse upon the land before vanishing without a trace” source
- Court Intrigue: “Emily is immediately thrust into the deadly intrigues of Faerie as the two of them seize the throne of Wendell's long-lost kingdom” source
- Rivals to Lovers: “her former academic rival—now fiancé—the dashing and mercurial Wendell Bambleby” source
- Strong Heroine: “A renowned dryadologist, she has documented hundreds of species of Folk in her Encyclopaedia of Faeries. Now she is about to embark on her most dangerous academic project yet: studying the inner workings of a faerie realm—as its queen.” source
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