Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes)

Product Information

i feel very obliged to make this comparison dot in this review, and it truly means a lot to me and my heart: i started to read this when baldur’s gate 3 was dropping, and i couldn't help but really see the connection of how these characters we are kind of recruiting based on trust and friendship and how these explorations with them feels like discovering this seaside town’s map completely with each new quest. The stories from the borrowed books ties perfectly into the novel with foreshadowing and self discovery. His nose was a hatchet, his hair hung kelp-thick past sharp ears, and his forearms writhed with tattoos.

I wish I could love this series the way everyone else seems to, but I guess I need to accept being the odd one out here.And it is through the delight and escapism bestowed by reading great books that she feels this further. The in-universe fiction that Val reads is also greatly entertaining as we see her slowly warm to spicy romance novels to pass her afternoons.

It goes without saying that readers reading this book and Legends and Lattes will most likely be readers who love reading books. I don’t know if I can explain it, but watching you read what I give you, putting a book in your hands and seeing what happens to you once you put it back down . Nothing of significance happens other than a few sightings of the mystery man in gray, a possible romance brewing, and Viv's new-found love of books. It does the impossible: showing us a character twenty years before her story, and making us hold our breath to see what happens next. It’s wonderfully wholesome, and I hope heralds the rise of a 'slice-of-life' sub-genre in modern fantasy.This is a solid follow-up to Legends and Lattes and were the series to end here, I would be okay with that but think that Travis Baldree could probably squeeze out one more novel before the formula starts getting stale.

I'm not a fan of prequels or sequels - they are rarely worth it, nor do they add to the overall story at large. Viv was so used to her very existence being an obvious threat that it was honestly startling to hear a casual joke at her expense, even such a mild one. Whether this was necessary for the story or not doesn't matter as the story still is mostly low stakes. The innocent joy of Viv and Fern’s love is delightful and Baldree’s formula of placing low-stakes stories in high-fantasy settings remains good fun.If you want a quiet book with a great setting, side characters and just warm, cozy feelings than look no further. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

A suspicious traveller in grey, a gnome with a chip on her shoulder, a summer fling and an improbable number of skeletons prove Murk to be more eventful than Viv could have ever expected.

I would recommend this one to readers looking for a nice pallet cleanser between grimdark fantasy and other depressing reads. It attaches a fascinating history to her as each person she comes across in Murk changes her, some only in little ways, others in big ones.