Review: Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree

Title: Bookshops and Bonedust

Series: Legends and Lattes #0

Author: Travis Baldree

Viv’s career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam’s Ravens isn’t going as planned.

Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she’s packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk—so far from the action that she worries she’ll never be able to return to it.

What’s a thwarted soldier of fortune to do?

Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn’t possibly imagine.

Still, adventure isn’t all that far away. A suspicious traveler in gray, a gnome with a chip on her shoulder, a summer fling, and an improbable number of skeletons prove Murk to be more eventful than Viv could have ever expected.

If you loved Legends and Lattes then you will 100% want to read this, I promise you!

We are back with Viv but this time it’s before Thune and coffee in the sea city of Murk where Viv is convalescing. In her recovery she stumbles across a bookshop and a bakery and some new faces….

What ensues is:

~ Found family,
~ A cozy read,
~ A charming but slightly dangerous town,
~ A foul mouthed shop owner,
~ A cute, odd animal,
~ Viv in all her glory,
~ A fabulous use of the word moist,
~ A skeleton who you’ll love,
~ A small summer fling,
~ A book lover/advocate.

All of this will make you want to jump into this book headfirst so you can live in this world!

In the acknowledgements the author says he had a cozy, fun, mystery in his head set in Thune (and I’m hoping featuring Viv and Tandri) but this book came to pass instead. With the events at the end of B&B, I’m hoping we will now get the original too, preferably with Satchel (IYKYK),  because I want to get this warm, fuzzy feeling again from this authors work!

‘Sometimes, it’ll never be the right time.
And sometimes, we aren’t the right people yet.’

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