“High fantasy with low stakes” - love it. It’s a great meta point about the genre that usually the stakes are enormous. That’s a lot of fun but it’s also a great exercise to set that aside and still use the trappings of fantasy to tell a closer and more personal story.

I loved all the characters in this book. Viv is strong and talented and has a good eye for organization but she’s too hard on herself. Tandri oscillates between well placed assured confidence and a recognizable uncertainty. I can hear Cal talking, with his very distinctive “Hm”.

Also I would like a cinnamon bun, please.

And to see that the author is a NaNoWriMo participant from 2021 is awesome! Turning that around into something as successful as this so quickly is quite the achievement. And having read it, it’s clearly very well deserved.

Legends & Lattes

By Travis Baldree

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