Author: Travis Baldree
Series: Legends & Lattes (Book 3)
Publication: Tor Books (November 11, 2025)
Description: Return to the cozy fantasy world of the #1 New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes series with a new adventure featuring fan-favorite, foul-mouthed bookseller Fern
Fern has weathered the stillness and storms of a bookseller’s life for decades, but now, in the face of crippling ennui, transplants herself to the city of Thune to hang out her shingle beside a long-absent friend’s coffee shop. What could be a better pairing? Surely a charming renovation montage will cure what ails her!
It turns out that fixing your life isn’t a one-time prospect, nor as easy as a change of scenery and a lick of paint.
A drunken and desperate night sees the rattkin waking far from home in the company of a legendary warrior, an imprisoned chaos-goblin with a fondness for silverware, and an absolutely thumping hangover.
As together they fend off a rogue’s gallery of ne’er-do-wells trying to claim the bounty the goblin represents, Fern may finally reconnect with the person she actually is when nothing seems inevitable.
My Thoughts: This third book in the Legends & Lattes fantasy world stars rattkin Fern who has come to Thune to open a bookstore next door to her friend Val. She has been a bookseller for years but has been looking for a change of pace.
Unfortunately opening another bookstore isn't the thing she needs to cure her boredom. But she doesn't know what she really wants from life until she wakes up hungover and far from home in the cart belonging to Astryx, Blademistress, Oathmaiden, etc. who is ferrying a goblin thief to a faraway town to collect the bounty on her.
Being broke and far from home, Fern decides to go along and finds herself having all sorts of rather dangerous adventures which she writes about to Val in letters that all seem to start with "I'm sorry." Fern learns about herself on the journey and makes friends and enemies along the way.
This cozy fantasy is a bit more violent than the earlier books as Astryx and her talking sword Nigel try to keep the goblin Zyll from many who have violent grudges against her. And Fern is tagging along and providing some timely help along the way with Breadlee, a "greatsword that has experience diminishment" and ne\ow is a breadknife.
This was a fun story with some depth as Fern tries to figure out what it is that she really wants for her life.
I received this one in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley. You can buy your copy here.
I received this one in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley. You can buy your copy here.
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