halfshook 's review for:

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett

3.5

adventurous reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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i’m sort of disappointed in this book as the final instalment in the trilogy. i feel as if each book is weaker than the last and that pains me to say because i wanted to like this one so much more than i did. whilst i still love emily and wendell, for a book in which they get married and half the conflict is keeping wendell from dying, there is not nearly enough interactions between the two. i missed their banter a lot in this one. 

i do appreciate that the plot does come full circle in this one in that we go back to the beginning, tying up lots of loose threads, i feel like this one also leaves just as many frayed. i’m willing to forgive a lot of plot jumping due to faerie magic but there are some incidents where i was just like okay sure, whatever, why the hell not?!! 

i do however love that poe makes a return because i think he might be my favourite character. and my beloved lesbians are here. emily does finally realise she has made a family for herself after never really having one and that was probably my favourite part of this book. she has a community in her found family and i love that. but back to my original point, the romance is lacking in this one. i wanted far more scenes of them being blissfully married and i was ROBBED! also i feel as if the final chapter is a lacklustre finale and i wanted more of it. 

it’s definitely worth finishing the trilogy but it could have been better.