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How long does it take to read Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries?

Heather Fawcett

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett takes about 5 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 58 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2023. 325 pages, about 89,375 words.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 56 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 58 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 43 minutes

The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love in the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party--or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, and the Fair Folk. So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby, who manages to charm the townsfolk, get in the middle of Emily's research, and utterly confound and frustrate her. But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones--the most elusive of all faeries--lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town, she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? To find the answer, she'll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all--her own heart.

Subjects: Fiction, Fantasy, Romance

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