In Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales, Heather Fawcett wraps up her enchanting series with a captivating mix of magic and romance. Emily Wilde, now a faerie queen, grapples with her new role while unraveling deadly intrigues in her fiancé Wendell Bambleby’s long-lost kingdom. The story delivers a thrilling blend of action, faerie lore, and heartfelt moments, showcasing the beloved characters’ growth and deepening their bond. A delightful conclusion to a charming trilogy, it’s a must-read for fans of cozy romantasy.

I could read about Emily and Wendell’s adventures for the rest of my life and never be bored. The world building is fantastic. The character descriptions are unmatched. It’s a true love story. They both completely love the other without wanting to change them. Absolutely perfect.

This book was everything I hoped it would be and it ended on a really wonderful note, so if this is the last in the series I’d be very happy with the ending.

I really loved the pacing of this book compared to the first two and the action was pretty non-stop, but also so fun! If you enjoyed the first two books in this series, I think you’re truly going to LOVE this one.

This series was just so fun for me to read and this book was no exception to that. I love Emily’s interaction with all the characters and I didn’t find the plot of this book to my rushed, even with this book having more action than the others.

Overall, 5 stars to a truly amazing book and thank you to NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review!

I love Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde and Wendell Bambleby with all of my cold dead heart. A fantastic conclusion to this series.

Delightful and sweet, this novel weaves another chapter in Emily and Wendell's adventures. More Emily-centric, this volume focuses on her internal struggles and has her relying less on the "found family" type relationships that made the other books in the series so rich, but there was still much joy in encountering old favorite characters as they popped in and out of the story.

Cosy and wonderful. Just a whole lot of fun and so enchanting. I cannot wait to see what Heather Fawcett does next. Highly highly recommend this whole series. I will definitely be rereading in the future.

I liked this maybe slightly less than the earlier two installments, but I still really really liked this. I would read anything Heather Fawcett wrote and especially anything about Emily and Wendell!

I have loved the entire Emily Wilde trilogy!! It has been so much seeing what Emily and Wendell get up to and the found family along the way. Such a charming series with an end worthy of the first book. This book was more action packed than the other two, but still had moments of coziness between Emily and Wendell that I loved. Thank you so much for the arc!

Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales
By Heather Fawcett

Still loving this series, but I feel like anything could be a spoiler at this point!

I’m especially really enjoying how the faeries are portrayed and how faerie tales are woven into everything.

Vague enough? 😂 go read it when it comes out!

Thanks to @netgalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Heather Fawcett just gave me a heart attack. Breathe....ok, ok I think I'm okay.

This was definitely an adventure into Faerie in every way. You gotta stay on your toes around chaotic uber crazy fair folk. This third installment of my fave cozy romantasy has a twisty plot that just kept going. Em & Wendell finally return to his homeland to claim the throne with a little help from their friends, but no one said it would be easy. A crazy ex-queen in hiding, plotting courtiers, a plaque on the land, and so SO much research to do! Emily really has her hands full and then some.

I love Em & Wendell's relationship so much. Even Wendell's chronic co-dependence is endearing now instead of annoying. Fans of the series will enjoy this one as much or maybe more than the previous installments. It's got some big hyperventilating, "OMG WHAT?" moments and all your favorite characters are back to help our heroes get their HEA.

Wishlist -- I need Emily and Wendell to become parents in the next book and for this series NEVER to end! Love the story, love all the characters, love love love everything about this world Fawcett has created. Grab a cup of tea/coffee, a cozy perch and READ THIS SERIES NOW.

4.5 stars

I was thrilled to get this early copy, and it was a delight to read. It did take a little longer to get to the nitty gritty of the conflict, as Emily took some time adjusting to the idea of becoming a faerie queen in a rather frightening kingdom. Emily's journal entries were grumpily humorous as always, and Wendell's cozy-but-sometimes-really-scary magic made even the slower parts fun to read. I wouldn't call this type of fantasy low-stakes, but I appreciate that Fawcett doesn't drag out the angst when things get angsty. The tension is always just right for my tolerance level. And Wendell's last wedding gift to Emily was just wonderful. I dare you not to get choked up.

Heather Fawcett continues to enchant in the world of Emily Wilde! It's like spending time with friends you haven't seen in a while.

I absolutely loved this book! I read it in one setting because it was so good and I could not get enough of the characters. I really loved the characters the author created and there journey that they took. The story was fast paced but detailed where I felt immersed but not bored. I will be recommending this book to all of my family and friends.

I was so happy to return to Emily and Wendell's story! Emily and Wendell are arriving to save his kingdom, and Emily is chasing old stories, looking for patterns and clues to guide their steps.

As with the two preceding books, this one is full of imagination, fantastic characters, and a bit of old fashioned scholarly lore. Emily's heady research and perfectly balanced by Wendell's charming Caprice, and I just couldn't love the two of them more!

I am so thankful to have received and arc via Netgalley. All enthusiastic opinions are my own!

I thoroughly and wholeheartedly enjoyed this next adventure into the Emily Wilde universe. This book absolutely delivered on the promises of the previous two novels. It was truly a delight to watch Emily navigate the new world that is Wendell’s kingdom.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an arc of this novel. My opinions are entirely my own.

If Heather Fawcett decides to make this a 100 book series I will diligently follow her. Wendell and Emily are everything to me. I loved every aspect of this book and I am so fond of these characters and these stories. This did wrap up very nicely but I love to see more from this series.

The Emily Wilde series never fails to feel like a homecoming. Even in this action-packed entry, there is something so heartwarming and welcoming in Emily’s voice.

That said, I think this book strayed a little too far from the nature of the first two. I miss the strong academic flair of the others (where the footnotes felt necessary to books 1 & 2, here it felt like we were keeping form for the sake of it) and the slightly tetchier Emily who is not ready to admit she’s in love. The plot was fun and enjoyable but could have used room to breathe.

While I don’t think this was the strongest of the series, I still highly recommend it and can’t wait to see where we end up next.

3 books in, and I have come to trust Heather Fawcett to deliver cozy, heartwarming, and yet somewhat unnerving fantasy. This was the ending that Emily and Co. deserved, and I am simultaneously heartbroken to leave this world, and in awe of how beautifully this was done. I love mischievous fae, and Fawcett has continuously delivered academic hijinks amidst building stakes. I hope she continues to write, and I have no doubt I will read and thoroughly enjoy whatever she does next.

Loved being back in this world with Emily and Wendell. This conclusion wrapped up the trilogy neatly and left things open enough to revisit should the author wish to (I’d be happy to go back to Faerie with them!)

A satisfying denouement to Emily and Wendell’s tale.

The voice of this installment felt somewhat less vibrant to me (rushed, perhaps?) than the previous two, but it wasn’t enough of a difference to distract me from the exciting throes of the narrative—I couldn’t put the book down! Emily continues to be the heroine you can’t help but root for; Wendell an absolute charmer; and Shadow and Orga remain perfect companions.

Thanks to Random House Publishing Group for the ARC via netgalley.