Legends & Lattes is just delightful. It’s comforting in the way that a warm mug of milky bean water (ie coffee) is, as you breathe in that nutty, chocolatey aroma, and take a sip, ah. 

Viv is an orc and she’s setting up a coffee shop in a city where no one seems to know what coffee is. It’s a bit of a learning curve for this former mercenary, but with the help of some new friends she makes, her coffee house is established. 

Reading this story is just soothing and heartwarming. Yes this is fantasy, and it’s not exactly your typical fantasy with adventures and bloody conflicts, but it’s utterly satisfying. Somehow all the fantasy I’ve read this year (ok so at the moment it’s just The Goblin Emperor) has been not your typical fantasy but that’s just exactly what I need right now.