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She builds a business, a makeshift family and a new life, while old dangers linger.
Travis Baldree's cozy fantasy won the 2023 Locus Award for Best First Novel.
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Fantasy & Magical Realism
Legends & Lattes
A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes
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Cryptid Press (self-published first edition); Tor Books (Macmillan)
Weary of adventuring, an orc barbarian named Viv retires to open the first coffee shop in a fantasy city that has never heard of coffee.
- Published
- 2022
- Pages
- 304
- Format
- Self-published first edition...
- Language
- English
An orc warrior hangs up her sword to chase an unlikely dream: opening a coffee shop in a city that has never tasted coffee.
That is essentially the whole plot of Travis Baldree's beloved 'cozy fantasy' - and its gentleness is entirely the point. Legends & Lattes trades quests and carnage for the low-stakes pleasures of building a business and a found family: hiring a shy baker, befriending a taciturn carpenter, perfecting a menu, weathering a rival and a lingering ghost from the adventuring life.
Baldree, a professional audiobook narrator, writes with warmth and easy competence, and the book's charm lies in its refusal of grimdark - it offers comfort, craft and quiet romance instead of peril. Begun as a self-published word-of-mouth hit, it helped launch an entire cozy-fantasy movement and earned Hugo, Nebula and Locus recognition.
For readers who want a mug of something warm in book form - kind, funny and stress-free - it is a delight.
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Pages
304
Published
2022
Cryptid Press (self-published first edition); Tor Books (Macmillan)
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Self-published first edition...
Language
English
Fantasy & Magical Realism
ISBN
978-1250886088
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