Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather FawcettMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I loved this series. It’s a delightful read for teens, young adults, and adults alike.
This book follows Emily Wilde, a Cambridge scholar of Folk stories as she goes on the craziest of adventures in which she intends to help Wendell find a faerie door back to his kingdom and write her new book mapping the different worlds of faerie.
What I liked most about the story is that the concept of faerie studies or folk stories is taken seriously, adding a nice academic and cultural touch to the carefully built worlds. The love story between Emily (a scholar) and Wendell (an exiled faerie king) is very sweet and takes a back seat to the development of Emily’s strong and super relatable neurodivergent character. Another detail I liked about this book is that it explores how the judgment and preconceived notions of the “other” might be at the root of some of the most dangerous problems, at the same time, recognizing the value that others can bring to the table, can solve the toughest challenges.
