by Heather Fawcett (2023)
Emily Wilde is good at many things: she is the foremost scholar of the study of faeries; she is a genius researcher writing the world's first definitive encyclopaedia of fairy lore. But Emily is not good at people. When her fieldwork takes her to a remote Scandinavian hamlet, her academic rival Wendell Bambleby turns her expedition upside down.
Sangu Mandanna
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Sofia Samatar
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Brandon Sanderson
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