Bookshops and Bonedust

356 pages

English language

Published 2023 by Pan Macmillan.

ISBN:
978-1-0350-3586-1
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When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we need isn't always what we seek.

In Bookshops & Bonedust, a prequel to Legends & Lattes, author Travis Baldree takes us on a journey of high fantasy, first loves, and second-hand books.

Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned.

Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she's packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk—so far from the action that she worries she'll never be able to return to it.

What's a thwarted soldier of fortune to do?

Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn't possibly imagine.

Still, …

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reviewed Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Bookshops & Bonedust

This was a fun prequel to Legends & Lattes. It was a much stronger book for me with much more depth; Viv is stuck injured in a small seaside town and has to figure out what to do with herself while she's recovering. It's a cozy book about finding new directions, supporting friends who are stuck, and connections even when they're temporary. These are very different books, but it made me want to go reread Bujold's Memory, which is also a book centered on sorting out your life when its expected trajectory has been suddenly altered.

It's also a book about loving books and caring for a bookstore, which immediately endeared itself to me. Fern (the foul-mouthed rattkin who owns said bookstore) recommends Viv a series of books from different (in-world fantasy takes on) genres. The snippets from these books are entertaining but each one ties implicitly and explicitly …

reviewed Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Review of 'Bookshops & Bonedust' on 'Goodreads'

This is as perfect a prequel to "Legends and Lattes" as it could be.
I love that we get to know more about our protagonists history and meet a whole lot of new, interesting characters.
Even though the author wrote in the acknowledgement that he had a hard time writing it, it speaks for his abilities that you can't feel that when reading the book and I really hope of a third book in the series, that let's us meet my favourite fantasy barista again.

reviewed Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Bookshops & Bonedust

I was pleasantly surprised.

My takeaway from Legends & Lattes was that it was a cozy fantasy adaptation of a modern concept àla Pratchett, but I didn't get a particular feeling of depth.

With Bookshops & Bonedust, it's the converse - I felt like it was mainly a story about Viv and her forced journey of self-discovery, while all the rest of it was just set dressing.

reviewed Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree (Legends & Lattes, #0)

Review of 'Bookshops & Bonedust' on 'Goodreads'

My perspective is different than most - I haven't read Legends & Lattes, and picked this up somewhat on a whim. I didn't even realize it was a prequel until the Epilogue.

Thoroughly enjoyed it though, and I'll definitely be reading Legends & Lattes too. Kingfisher's review on the jacket summed it up better than i could - "A warm hug of a book."

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  • Fiction, fantasy, action & adventure
  • Fiction, romance, fantasy
  • Fiction, lgbtq+, lesbian
  • Fiction, fantasy, dragons & mythical creatures
  • Booksellers and bookselling, fiction

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