Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands is the next installment in the delightful Emily Wilde series. Emily Wilde is back in Cambridge and searching for her friend Bambleby’s door. Bambleby is a challenging scholar and also an exiled faerie king. While she helps him, Emily is working on her next book- a map book. When assassins start to hunt Bambleby, they decide to take a research expedition to the Alps to search for the door to his home. Adventures, new friendships, and new fae/Folk are in store for Emily and Bambleby in this outstanding sequel. 

Emily is such a great heroine and unique in that she can be coldly brilliant, yet still very lovable. Scholarship is everything to her and matters of the heart take a little more work. Emily must decide whether she will accept Bambleby’s proposal and what that might mean for her. The pacing is excellent; I did not want to put this book down! This series is cozy fantasy and filled with an awe-inspiring level of beautiful details. In this book, classic fae/Folk stories are seamlessly woven in and tiny fae with fascinating stories fill the pages. I enjoyed seeing characters from book one (like Poe!). I know that I’ll be rereading this book/series many times. 

Readers who enjoy cozy fantasy such as Legends & Lattes (Travis Baldree) will love this book. I hope to read more stories in this world and see what happens next to Emily and Bambleby! 

Thank you so much to Heather Fawcett, Del Rey, and Netgalley for a free ARC in exchange for an honest review.