Series profile
Emily Wilde
A completed folkloric fantasy trilogy about a prickly scholar, dangerous faeries, and a patient romance.
- Status
- Complete series
- Published
- 3
- Commitment
- Medium series
- Audience
- Adult / Crossover
Reading route
Start with the profiled opening volume.
1 of 3 volumes profiled
- 1Fantasy CompassEmily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of FaeriesBook profile
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
A brilliant, abrasive scholar travels north to document faeries and finds her fieldwork becoming personal.
The trilogy remains relatively gentle, but the faeries are dangerous rather than domesticated or purely whimsical.
Series intelligence
Before you start the series.
Where to begin, how much the complete reading path asks of you, and whether the central story has an ending.
- Linear reading order
- Complete
- 3 published books
Where to start
Start with Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries and continue in series order. The central story is designed to be read linearly.
- Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
The intended starting point for the continuous central story.
The central series is complete at 3 books.
The full published path is a medium-length series spanning 3 books.
Best if you want
- Academic competence, folklore, and wintry fieldwork.
- A slow-burn relationship that develops beside the research.
Think twice if you need
- Epic warfare or rapid escalation from page one.
- Fully explained, rule-based faerie magic.
Outside the score
Reader context
Series information guides suitability and commitment. Matrix scores remain attached to individual books.
Reader advisories
- Violence
- Child peril
- Grief and loss
Editorial record
Sources and review
Matrix v1.0 / calibrated / high confidence / reviewed 2026-07-23