#effusive and charismatic partner/rival? check
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initial Emily Wilde* thoughts:
I love her your honor
I would kill for Shadow (but also what kind of dog is he?? because she said boarhound [I think] which comes up as Great Dane but she mentioned his forelock I think???)
NORDIC**. ISLAND.
eeeee she's my age! (this is so rare right now asgha;ghgh)
these people sound like Dracula
I also love Bambleby. haven't even met him and I am completely enamored.
placing hold for the sequel as we speak
*[*squints* Emily Wilde..... Ah. Emily Windsnap. That's what it reminds me of.]
**I said Norwegian originally and that's not quite accurate but who's counting?
#immediately I can tell you this has so many things I love and have been craving#bookish and quirky scholar? check#(I am drawing serious Evelyn Carnahan O'Connell parallels)#epistolary format with an engaging narrative voice? check#canine companion? check#effusive and charismatic partner/rival? check#set on an island? check#also the time period? one of my favorites#quasi-reading slump begone! (for now)#I wish I had my crochet with me#this book deserves crochet and tea#re: Dracula: the narrator's voices for the people of Hrafnsvik sound like how some people imitate Dracula#it's weird#not bad just weird#2024 reading list#emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries#mine
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