Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

I received this copy of the book through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review, all thoughts are my own!

It is fair to say that if you liked book 1, then you are going to like book 2. Emily Wilde is back in this book with some new characters as well as some old with a new adventure and a ton of interesting faeries. This book takes them to Austria, in search of the nexus portal that Dr. De Grey found and went missing through, in the hopes of finding a door for Wendell Bambleby to get home.

If you loved the dynamic of Emily and Wendell in book 1 then they are that much cuter in book 2. The faith that these two have in each other is so evident throughout the book, and the lengths they will go to to ensure the other is safe is paramount. The other interesting thing about their relationship in this books is you can actively see them making choices the other would have made, even at their detriment. It was an interesting bit of characterization that made their relationship that much sweeter.

In this book, it is a bit spookier than the previous book. The faeries are darker, ghost lurk about and the stakes are higher.

Overall, this was a really pleasant follow-up to the first and with the way that it ends, I feel like it's safe to say that there should be a third book, which I'm very excited to read!