The only way to describe this book is to say it's utterly and wonderfuly lovely!

Set in a world where the study of the Fae is scientific but relatively new, Emily has set about to write the first fairy encyclopedia. Visiting a new, far flung icy location to learn about the local fairy population, she finds much more than she thought she would.

This was an easy, joyous read that I'm sure I'll read again. I loved Emily's confusion (or coldness as some have described it) around other people and her obsession with faries. She's definitely a little autistic coded.  I loved Wendel too, he reminded me so much of the book version of Howl from Howl's Moving Castle.

I'm going to start the second book immediately and I'm very pleased that the third (and last) of the series came out a couple of days ago so that I can read them all at once.