The Geographer's Map to Romance: 05/03/25

The Geographer's Map to Romance by India Holton (2025) is the second book in the Love's Academics romance series. The Professors Tarrant are experts in magical disasters. They had a marriage of convenience but are separated. Now they've both been assigned to a investigate strange happenings in a remote Welsh village and there's only one room available.

The Tarrants are sent to Dolylleuad, a fictional town that means illusion. It's a good name for a place where people have reported seeing things. It's a typically remote village except that it's been over-run with tourists curious over the paranormal happenings.

As the majority of this book is set in Wales, there's some play with with the Welsh language but not to the extent as the first book's toying with both French and Latin. Instead the focus is on how geography affects magic, including the renaming of ley lines to fey lines.

Although this volume didn't have me giggling as much as The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (2024), I did appreciate the relationship between Elodie and Gabriel Tarrant. Despite being "exes" they are genuinely friends and professional colleagues, even if they have very different approaches to the problem at hand. It's nice to see a married couple working together and these two bring to mind Emerson and Peabody from Elizabeth's Peter's long running mystery series.

The third book is The Antiquarian's Object of Desire. Release date has yet to be announced.

Five stars

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