The latter embraces Dungeons and Dragons tropes with a twist. Not only is the prose easy to get immersed in, but Legends & Lattes’ expansive cast of characters are easy to fall in love with, and the worldbuilding is clever. Whether it’s because Travis has studied craft, or just narrates so many books that he absorbed writing craft through osmosis, it’s a stunningly-well done story at every level. This was not the case with Legends & Lattes. I’ve read many a book from a new self-published author where the story was so good, it didn’t matter if the prose was filled with passive voice, unnecessary adverbs, repetitive sentence structures, jolting saidisms, and other marks of questionable writing craft. I knew I’d eventually get to Legends and Lattes, but after seeing rave reviews just about everywhere, and then hearing news that TOR had acquired it, this sapphic cozy high fantasy moved to the summit of Mount TBR (or TBL, as the case may be). I’d loved his performance of Will Wight’s Cradle, Tao Wong’s Thousand Li, and several others, but I wasn’t sure what to expect from him as a storyteller. Like much of the fantasy book world, I was surprised to find out that audiobook narrator extraordinaire Travis Baldree would be releasing a fantasy novel he wrote himself.
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