{"id":45084,"date":"2025-04-12T22:58:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T02:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=45084"},"modified":"2025-04-12T22:58:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T02:58:57","slug":"review-of-emily-wildes-compendium-of-lost-tales-by-heather-fawcett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=45084","title":{"rendered":"Review of Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales, by Heather Fawcett"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales<\/em><\/p>\n

by Heather Fawcett
\nread by Ell Potter and Michael Dodds<\/p>\n

Books on Tape, 2025. 11 hours 44 minutes.
\nReview written April 2, 2025, from a library eaudiobook.
\nStarred Review<\/p>\n

Oh, I love the Emily Wilde books<\/a> more with each volume! You’re going to want to read these in order, especially to watch Emily’s relationship with Wendell develop, but it was okay not to remember every detail of the previous books. I love these books so much, I decided to purchase my own copy and preordered it, but listening has been such a delightful experience, I still put the audiobook on hold.<\/p>\n

The charm of the book is found especially in the character of Emily Wilde, the foremost dryadologist in the world – at least in this alternate world where faeries are real and studying them is a serious academic discipline. Her encyclopedic knowledge of faery lore means she has what it takes to now survive becoming a queen of faerie – or so we hope. For his stepmother is dead, and Wendell is ready to take his throne in the Faerie Kingdom of Where the Trees Have Eyes.<\/p>\n

Except – it turns out that Wendell’s stepmother isn’t actually dead yet, and she’s found a way to poison the realm so that it is dying as she dies. Now it’s up to Emily to find the tale that applies so she can defeat the old queen’s plans. Though she does get plenty of help from characters we’ve met in the earlier books.<\/p>\n

Something I love about these books is what a serious academic Emily is – even compelled to cite sources and include footnotes. The reader Ell Potter does an excellent Footnote Voice, so I wasn’t surprised to see that’s what’s found in the text. Wendell, on the other hand, tries to get her to lighten up and enjoy his beautiful kingdom. And it’s all completely delightful.<\/p>\n

Even though Wendell and Emily are now king and queen of a faerie realm, they’re still traveling together, and Emily is still doing research, so I hope there will be more books to come. I’m sure Emily Wilde’s adventures – and publications – are not over.<\/p>\n

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Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett read by Ell Potter and Michael Dodds Books on Tape, 2025. 11 hours 44 minutes. Review written April 2, 2025, from a library eaudiobook. Starred Review Oh, I love the Emily Wilde books more with each volume! You’re going to want to read these in order, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9,5,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobooks","category-fantasy","category-fiction-review","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45126,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45084\/revisions\/45126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}