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Cargando... Legends & Lattes (2022 original; edición 2022)por Travis Baldree (Autor)
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree. The story follows the life of Viv, a former sword-slinging Orc who has decided to trade in the battlefield for a retirement as a coffeeshop owner, and all of the new characters she meets along the way. This book is the definition of cozy and heart warming. It was a delightful read to escape to while still providing meaningful conflict and satisfying resolutions. Highly recommend for any fantasy lover who wants a quick and light-hearted read. 5/5 stars.
Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree, is a sweet and gentle story about what happens after your orc heroine kills all the bad guys and gets all the treasure. It’s the D&D / coffeeshop AU mashup that I didn’t know I wanted to read about. Pertenece a las seriesPremiosListas de sobresalientes
"Agotada después de pasar décadas luchando en batallas sangrientas, Viv, una orco bárbara, decide que es hora de colgar su espada y comenzar una nueva vida, una que le brinde alegría a ella misma y felicidad a los otros. Su nuevo objetivo la lleva a dirigirse hacia las calles de Thune, donde planea abrir la primera cafetería que haya visto la ciudad, sirviendo una bebida que ninguno de los ciudadanos ha probado antes. Pero emprender un nuevo negocio nunca es fácil, especialmente cuando arrastras un pasado complicado y los viejos enemigos pueden alterar tus planes de futuro. Para construir algo que permanezca en el tiempo, Viv necesitará rodearse de un maravilloso grupo de personajes que no sólo la ayudarán a poner en marcha su cafetería, sino que también le enseñaran mucho acerca de la amistad y de cómo lidiar con los problemas de forma civilizada. Viv está decidida a alcanzar una nueva vida sin recurrir a la violencia. Y, quién sabe, puede que incluso encuentre el amor por el camino..." -- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Which is too bad. The premise sounds like a lot of fun. In a D&D-style setting, Orcish adventurer Viv has decided to hang up her sword and pursue her dream of opening a coffee shop, even though pretty much no one around her has even heard of this exotic gnomish stuff called coffee. And the way she sets about basically creating a 21st-century coffee shop in this fantasy world did, briefly, seem kind of cute. Oh, look, now they've invented biscotti, ha! Except... Well, you know how, these days, coffee shops all over the place have started to feel completely interchangeable? And, yeah, there's a comfortable familiarity to that, but maybe a bit of local color might actually be more interesting? This is basically that in novel form. No local color, no sense of the fantasy setting as a real place that matters in any way. Just your average boring completely familiar coffee shop with some vague fantasy flavor. For those familiar with fanfictional tropes, it's basically a coffeeshop AU without the AU part, and... Well, maybe before picking this one up I should have thought about how much I dislike coffeeshop AUs and the way they suck out all the specific details of settings and stories that make them interesting to me and replace them with the boringly mundane.
Mind you, it could have worked, anyway, if it were played with the right kind of humor, or if the characters were compelling enough to carry the whole thing by themselves, but no and no. And the oh-so-pat "and then everything works out fine because of the Power of Friendship!" ending was far too cartoonish for me.
Then again, maybe the simple truth is that I'm entirely too Gen X to really enjoy anything that's praised on the back cover for being "wholesome." ( )