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Legends & Lattes
Travis Baldree
2022 · 296 pages · Fantasy
How it reads
Legends & Lattes is fantasy (cozy fantasy, specifically), and its dominant mood is cosy. Low stakes, warm company: the kind of book you read under a blanket. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.
It's set in an invented world, in no single period, told in the third person, staying close to one character. Its central concerns are friendship, redemption and art and creativity. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.
It opens a series. The ending resolves happily. At 296 pages it's a quick read. It's a mega-bestseller — the book everyone seems to have read.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something cosy
- you want an escape
- you like disappearing into an invented world
Maybe not if…
- you need something dark, tense or eerie
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- fantasy
- Author gender
- male
- Author experience
- debut
- Setting: place
- fictional world
- Setting: time
- timeless or multiple
- Mood / feeling
- cosy
- Pace
- moderate
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- short
- Narrative style
- third person, one viewpoint
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- mega-bestseller
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- friendship, redemption, art and creativity
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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The closest books in Match Book's catalogue across the same dimensions, and what they share.
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- Sofi and the Bone SongAdrienne TooleyShares: fantasy, light and escapist tone, moderate pace, resolved and happy ending
- Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday TroublesTaisia KitaiskaiaShares: fantasy, light and escapist tone, moderate pace, resolved and happy ending
- Flash GoldLindsay BurokerShares: fantasy, light and escapist tone, resolved and happy ending, set in an invented world
HawkSteven BrustShares: fantasy, light and escapist tone, resolved and happy ending, set in an invented world- The Fencing Master (Pathfinder Tales)Dave GrossShares: fantasy, light and escapist tone, resolved and happy ending, set in an invented world
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