I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect with this.  I was won over by Heather Fawcett’s promise of Faeries (spelt the way I like too).  Emily Wilde is a scholar.  An expert in the Fae and her life’s work has been the compiling of her Encyclopedia.  The novel takes the form of her journal with footnotes included. This, the first in what I hope will become a series details Emily’s expedition to study the folk of Ljosland.  She is single-minded when it comes to her research, hyperfocusing on her studies. Her rival at Cambridge is the effortlessly successful Wendell Bambleby. Where Emily is methodical and diligent with her eyes on…