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Review: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
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…
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Review: Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell
Ocean’s Echo is the second novel set in the same universe as Winter’s Orbit, but with new characters and new drama. The headline of this review is that I adored it. It is full of themes that I really got behind. Consent, mental control, neurological modifications and the ethics surrounding them. We are first introduced to Tennal. He is an extroverted disaster zone. He’s contrary, rebellious, charismatic, and the nephew of the Legislator, one of Orshan’s senior political figures. At the beginning of the novel, he is slumming it in a gambling den hiring himself out as a reader. Second generation of the orginal neuro-modded humans. He can read minds…
