Friday Face Off: Emily Wilde’s History of Dark Faerie by Heather Fawcett
16 October 2026
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Tags: Emily Wilde's History of Dark Faerie, Heather Fawcett, The Friday Face Off
Today is another opportunity to play along at the Friday Face Off where you choose a book and compare the covers. Originally created by Books by Proxy). If you’re taking part I would love you to drop me a link so I can check out your cover choices. .
I’ve decided to make a couple of changes to my weekly Friday Face Off – nothing too drastic – at the start of the month, the first Friday Face Off of the month, I’m aiming to take a look at joining in with the Birthstone Book Covers meme created by Leslie @ Books Are The New Black so for the first FFO every month I will search for covers that match that month’s birthstone (from books that I’ve read) and compare them and choose a favourite. For the last Friday of every month I’m going to look at the books I’ve read that month and do the same.
Today I’m back to my regular Face Off and I’ve once again I’ve chosen a forthcoming book that I’m very excited about. Even more so because I really didn’t expect to have the pleasure of a further instalment. Emily Wilde’s History of Dark Faerie by Heather Fawcett. The fourth, and very unexpected, instalment. Here are the covers:
I like both sets of covers for this series but I have chosen a favourite:
This certainly feels like dark faerie doesn’t it.
Which is your favourite this week?
Can’t Wait Wednesday: Emily Wilde’s History of Dark Faerie by Heather Fawcett
5 August 2026
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Tags: Can't Wait Wedesday, Emily Wilde's History of Dark Faerie, Heather Fawcett, Wishful Endings
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that was originally created by Breaking the Spine. Unfortunately Breaking the Spine are no longer hosting so I’m now linking my posts up to Wishful Endings Can’t Wait Wednesday. Don’t forget to stop over, link up and check out what books everyone else is waiting for. If you want to take part, basically, every Wednesday, we highlight a book that we’re really looking forward to. This week my book is: Emily Wilde’s History of Dark Faerie by Heather Fawcett (Emily Wilde No.4). I confess I’m happily surprised and more than happy to be wrong because I really thought that Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales was the conclusion to this series. And here we are with No.4 on the horizon. Well, colour me happy. Lets take a look at the cover and description:
Curmudgeonly scholar Emily Wilde must brave the beautiful but haunted Black Forest and open a portal to a long-lost, eldritch realm dreaded by the Folk, in this fourth installment of the New York Times bestselling series.
Driven by an insatiable scientific curiosity, Emily Wilde has made a name for herself as the world’s foremost scholar of faeries. Along the way, she’s rescued a faerie kingdom and helped her now-husband—fellow professor Wendell Bambleby, dashing and infuriating in equal measure—regain his throne. And while understanding her fellow mortals has never been her strong suit, she’s also made a small number of friends.
But two years later, one of those friends goes missing in the beautiful but faerie-haunted Black Forest in Germany, a region of picturesque villages and sinister Folk. And if she’s to save him, Emily will have to reckon with the darker side of her own nature, and how ruthless she’s prepared to be to solve the most tantalizing of scholarly mysteries: the history of the ancient and long-lost realm she’s named Dark Faerie, the only place the Folk fear.
But Emily is not alone—she has her beloved Wendell, and her niece Ariadne, who hopes to follow in her footsteps. Told from the perspective of all three characters, this installment of the Emily Wilde series opens a magical portal to the most wondrous and dread faerie realm of all.
Expected publication: January 2027
