Brigands & Breadknives

This is the official sequel to Legends and Lattes. Baldree's other book, Bookshops and Bonedust, was a prequel. This book features Fern, the owner of the bookshop in the prequel. She has a foul mouth and is discontented. This is her accidental exploration of what she does and does not want to do with the rest of her life. It's another cozy fantasy, although there's more action than in the first two. I didn't feel very engaged with it until the end when I wished it would go on. I think books about discontent make me feel discontent, even with the book itself. It is almost meta, where I have the same feelings of the main character to the point that I stay as disengaged as they do. This book was just released and I couldn't wait to get my hands on it. I really like Baldree's prose. I think he has become the epitome of the cozy fantasy genre, the way I feel that TJ Klune has become the epitome of cozy LGBTQ+ fantasy.

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