Viv is an orc who, after many years of constant fighting and bloodletting all kinds of creatures, accidentally (during one of the trips) found herself in a cafe and fell in love with the dark, aromatic liquid called coffee served there. As luck would have it, it also reached the legend of how to turn your dream into action with a little magical support. After a few steps, she landed in a new place, building the first coffee shop in her life, importing coffee beans from gnomes and starting a business. Whether it was magic or sheer luck, several characters stood in Viv’s way, whose knowledge and skills accelerated the whole process, and additionally they also got close enough to the orc that she could calmly call them her friends.
One would like to say that after these events there was a climax, but unfortunately – that’s practically the whole story.
A fictional story with fantasy characters
Legends and Latte is a short book about how you can change your life and find friends. The plot is uncomplicated, and the atmosphere is calm and open. The main character decides to stop being associated only with gutting and, despite the uncertainty, decides to change her fate. Viv is such a big warm dumpling who has a dream and prepares as much as she can to make it come true. The book also features Viv’s systematically acquired friends – the hopgoblin and handyman Kat, the succubus with drawing and marketing skills Tandri and the wererat baker Thimble. Everyone is nice, inventive and quite quickly catches fire to the plan of the new boss.
When will something go wrong?
Maybe I’m a fatalist, but reading Travis Baldree’s book I was waiting for something to break. Although I knew from the previews and reviews that it was supposed to be a calm and light novel, I was quietly hoping for some action. Unfortunately – Legends and lattesit’s a common practice like many on the market. The only new quality is that instead of a corporate woman who quit her job and opened a cafe, we have an orc woman. The presented world is undeveloped. At will, the author introduces elements known to us from the real world, such as an espresso machine and explains their operation and origin with the skills of gnomes (Characters are too hot? Let’s install such a new device – air conditioning; we need something to last longer – hey, maybe a fridge? ). So we have a normal equipped cafeteria. In addition, after some time, cinnamon buns appear on the counter, and even a musician who has an innovative, loud instrument (an electric guitar?). Why look for new solutions, create your world from scratch, when you can take what already exists and works. reading,
I’ll brew myself
Once in college I heard that if you can delete some sentences or characters from the text and without them the sense of the story will not change, it means that they were not needed at all. This is how I perceive the fantasy elements placed in Legends and latte – as totally unnecessary. Transferring a moral novel into the realities of an undeveloped fantasy is not something revealing for me and does not fill any literary gap. I won’t say that I was only bored most of the time, but it is a novel-reading, which is immediately forgotten and does not encourage us to any reflection.
