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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "Legends & Lattes" by Travis Baldree
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:20:40 -0600
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On 12/31/2024 8:56 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Default User <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>
>>> "Legends & Lattes" by Travis Baldree
>>
>>> Book number one of a three book fantasy series.  I read the well
>>> printed and well bound trade paperback published by Tor in 2022 that
>>> I bought on Big River.  I have ordered the second book in the series.
>>
>> I have read the second book, Bookshops & Bonedust, which is actually a
>> prequel set well before this one. I have not decided about continuing.
> 
> I thought Legends and Lattes was silly fluff, but I enjoyed it.  I felt bad
> voting for it for the Hugos because I don't think silly fluff should be
> in the Hugos, but I voted for it anyway because I liked it a lot more than
> anything else running against it.  It made me smile more than once.
> 
> I read Bookshops and Bonedust because there was a copy sitting around at
> a friend's house and it was more of the same.  Which is really more than
> I needed at the time.
> --scott

L&L stayed in my SBR for a year before I got to it.  Once started, I 
ripped though it in a day or so.  A pretty good story and that is what 
books are about.

Lynn