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Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)

Travis Baldree

Start date: April 1, 2023

Finish date: April 30, 2023

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Mar 10, 2023 Christine rated it liked it

Shelves: cozy, comfort-reading

For me, this was like cotton candy. Airy, uncomplicated, and uniformly sugary. Do I normally prefer more nuanced desserts with varied textures and contrasting bitterness? Absolutely. But sometimes I want some cotton candy at the fair, and it's sticky-sweet and short-lived, but enjoyable enough in its own way.

Other 3-star reviews cover my feelings pretty well. I'm not upset that I read this - it was charming if insubstantial. I would certainly be interested in a different take on the same setup, ...more

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Jun 13, 2025 Sarah rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, popsugar-2025

Popsugar Reading Challenge 2025: A book that is considered healing fiction.

This was super cute and cozy. It had a bit of a Discworld vibe, but with less edge. Warm like coffee. Fun and fluffy like a cinnamon bun. Nothing much else to say, really. Just nice vibes 😊.

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Apr 05, 2023 Sarah rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, sci-fi-fantasy

This is the frothiest cup of cozy fantasy and I'm not entirely mad about it. I picked this up for our readers' advisory book club knowing that fantasy isn't my jam and hoped the heartwarming tone would be enough for me to get hooked.
But! There is so much else to enjoy! Viv, a retired warrior orc, buys an old building in the hopes of introducing coffee to a small village. Apparently coffee is a gnomish invention, who knew? Viv recruits Cal to help with the repairs and summons a succubus named Tan ...more

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Sep 10, 2023 Teresa rated it it was ok

I'm all for cozy fantasy books and moving away from fantasy books filled with giant battles to save the whole word. But even then, I still want to see SOME stakes in my cozy fantasy books. L&L had pretty much no stakes - as soon as a problem appeared, it was immediately solved or disappeared. (The coffee shop has almost no patrons the first day? No worries, they just get more and more each day after.) The one plot point that wasn't resolved until the end was basically a non-point for most of the ...more

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Dec 20, 2023 Judy rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy

3.5 An enjoyable, cozy fantasy about a female orc who decides she wants to follow a new path, and opens up a coffee shop in a town that has never heard of coffee. Endearing characters, and enough obstacles (including magic green fire) to make for fun reading.

Thanks to Capricorn Books for recommending this!

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