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Legends & Lattes, Travis Baldree

posted by [personal profile] emperor at 11:28am on 07/08/2023 under , ,
The cover promises "High fantasy, low stakes, good company", and certainly delivers. Viv is an Orc who retires from adventuring to run a coffee shop, in a city where no-one has heard of coffee (so supplies including the necessary machinery have to be bought from far-off gnomes). It's an entertaining take on the coffee shop AU beloved of fanfic authors, and it is lovely to watch Viv building a new life and family around her coffee shop (including a visiting dire-cat!).

It's frothy fun, and I enjoyed reading it, but I'm not sure it's really award-winning material...
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posted by [personal profile] rmc28 at 11:46am on 07/08/2023

I definitely agree with your final sentence :-)

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posted by [personal profile] jack at 01:06pm on 07/08/2023
Yeah. I want to award it for being written and I enjoyed it, but I didn't love it as much as I hoped. (And I mean, I think I wanted more froth, more small stakes conflict and success, not that I wanted bigger stakes.)
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posted by [personal profile] hilarita at 05:16pm on 07/08/2023
It's very cute, but not what I'd class as the best SF of 2022...
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posted by [personal profile] wpadmirer at 07:22pm on 07/08/2023
I have no idea about this book in particular, but one of the things I find in competitions is that often lighter material is considered "lesser" in terms of literary quality. Comedies rarely win prizes.

I have no ideas about the books nominated for the Hugo this year as I haven't been reading science fiction the last 16 months or so because of writing my own book. (Though I did take a short break for a scifi series called THE FORSAKEN MERCENARY which has some seriously kickass battle scenes.)
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