
A professor travels to a remote northern village to compile an encyclopaedia of faeries, uncovering dark magic, forging friendships, and developing feelings for her charming rival.
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A professor travels to a remote northern village to compile an encyclopaedia of faeries, uncovering dark magic, forging friendships, and developing feelings for her charming rival.
A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love in the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series.
Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small...
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Minor romantic tension and implied affection; no on-page sexual scenes or explicit content.
Descriptions of fae-inflicted harm including nail driven into a creature's chest, disturbing visions, bloody imagery, and references to folklore violence like shootings; not graphically detailed.
No profanity or strong language.
No substance use depicted.
Set in a queernorm world without anti-gay hatred; no explicit LGBTQIA+ characters or central themes.
No religious themes present.
Central fantasy elements involving faerie magic, folklore rituals, and scholarly study of elusive fae beings; framed as academic inquiry rather than occult practices.
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Subtle depiction of a progressive alternate 1909 without misogyny or anti-gay hatred in the background worldbuilding.
No self-harm or suicide depicted.
References to faerie folklore involving cruelty, changelings, and harm to humans; brief and not central.
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