GoodReads Monday

This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. It is now being hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. To participate, choose a random book from your GoodReads TBR and show it off. Which sounds easy enough until you have to decide how to choose that book! I think I will use a different way each week, like picking a color or number of pages. I will let you know each week how I chose the book and then something interesting about it, like how it ended up on the list or why I want to read it. Got it? Okay let’s get started.

This week’s choice is brought to us by the letter ‘E’. This was a much shorter list to choose from than the previous letters. But I have some goods ones to choose from. This week’s choice is not coming out till next January, but it is one of my most anticipated reads of 2024.

Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

Publication Date: January 11, 2024

Summary from Goodreads:

An intrepid professor must uncover faerie secrets in the delightful and heart-warming second instalment of the Sunday Times bestselling Emily Wilde series.

Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore, and has catalogued many secrets of the Hidden Folk in her encyclopaedia with her infuriatingly charming fellow scholar, Wendell Bambleby, by her side.

But Bambleby is more than just a brilliant and unbearably handsome scholar. He’s an exiled faerie king on the run from his murderous mother, in search of a door back to his realm.

By lucky happenstance, Emily’s new project, a map of the realms of faerie, will take them on an adventure to the picturesque Austrian Alps, where Emily believes they may find the door to Bambleby’s realm, and the key to freeing him from his family’s dark plans.

But with new friendships for the prickly Emily to navigate and dangerous Folk lurking in every forest and hollow, Emily must unravel the mysterious workings of faerie doors, and of her own heart.

I so enjoyed the first book in this series, Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Fairies, and I am sure this one will be just as good. I did snag an ARC on NetGalley, but I probably won’t read it until the fall. Unless I have a moment of weakness, and decide that I really must read it now!