Both Chambers and Travis Baldree have a light breezy style. Our characters feel like real folks‪.‬

I don’t know why I purchased Legends and Lattes last year. I had seen it somewhere. Bookstore? Amazon? Facebook? Regardless, it ended up on my TBR pile. Well, not a pile exactly, more like shoved on shelves in my basement. Its sequel, Bookshops and Bonedust, recently appeared in stores. I’d finished a book that had been a bit of a slog. Was going to read something else, but it wasn’t what I *wanted* to read. You know the feeling. I gravitated to Legends and Lattes and within 5 pages I knew I was going to like it. It’s not an epic fantasy. It doesn’t deal with the end of the world. It’s about an orc who decides to retire from adventuring and open the first coffee shop in the town of Thune. The problem is, no one know what coffee is.

This book is described as a “cozy fantasy”. It’s a “slice of life” if that life was lived in Middle Earth. I think, more so, it’s a comforting story that takes place in a fantasy realm. It reminds me of Becky Chambers “The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet” which is the cozy scifi equivalent. Both Chambers and Travis Baldree have a light breezy style. Our characters feel like real folks.