Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

The second book in the Emily Wilde series continues to deliver much of what I highly enjoyed from the first book - a bit of charm, wit, fairy cottage-core, slightly unsettling magic and magical creatures, a mystery, travel, and fantasy forest atmosphere and vibes galore - but it doesn't stray too far from the formula. If you're looking for this to greatly expand or do something different from the first book, then you may be disappointed, but if you are okay with a new adventure along the same lines as book one, you'll certainly enjoy the continuing story of Emily & Wendell. I think more than anything the atmosphere, location, Emily's ‘voice' through her journal entries, and the imaginative and unsettling magical creatures that she encounters are what I like the best and this second book continues to excel in these areas, so I still found great enjoyment in reading it. Once again I found myself wanting to go out myself and traipse into a damp, wild forest and look for fairy doors when I was done reading and that usually means it did a good job of pulling me into that world. Looking forward to Book 3!