Book Review: Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Ever wanted a book that gives you a hug and some coffee the moment you open it? That’s how I felt when I read Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree, and I loved every single moment of it. I loved how we’re on Viv’s journey from stopping on being an adventurer to being a coffee shop owner, bringing the love of coffee and treats to the river town of Thune. I loved seeing her grow and change her ways, and also find some non-violent ways of handling things, from coming to an agreement of thimblets to the Madigal and actually helping people in one little way to another.

I fell for the little rattkin Thimble is the bestest of all the boys and I would do ANYTHING for him. I can almost smell him making the cinnamon rolls or the thimblets (which is actually a real recipe). I also like Tandri and how she soothes Viv out and is always coming up with really good ideas (and she’s really talented when it comes to doing art and designing the menu). Another thing I really liked about this book is that it was so cozy and that I wanted to visit Thune and go to Legends and Lattes and get a nice cup of coffee and a treat and enjoy myself.

The only thing I didn’t like about this book, which didn’t annoy me like most fantasy novels, was the fact that Fennus appeared out of nowhere. Viv and the others was just minding their own business and Fennus would show up, waiting the Scalvert’s Stone and taunting Viv a bit. But I did like that her old crew showed up and visited her, even helped her rebuild when the original coffee shop was burned down.

The one thing I was curious about was the gnome playing cards, but then I just chalked it up to the fact that he just wanted a place to rest, have some coffee and play chess. Also have the direcat Anthy or Amity curl up next to him. I just wanted this gnome to live his best life and mind his own business. That’s it.

But I truely enjoyed this book, I would read it again so I can be enveloped with this with a warm hug and some coffee next to me.

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Book Review: Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams

Practice Makes Perfect by Sarah Adams
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I normally don’t read books that comes out in a year. I normally wait for the next year to read them. But this time, on my trip coming back home, I picked up this book and I fell in love with it as soon as I opened the book and started to read it. I have never read a book this cozy before in my life, and I’m wishing that I heard more about this author, because this book was so good. Grumpy x sunshine, grumpy bodyguard teaching the sunshine flower stone owner how to date, and slowly but surely falling in love with her, and also bodyguarding her best friend while she’s planning her own wedding to the brother of the sunshine flower store owner.

I really enjoyed this book so much-I was really not expecting to enjoy this small town book and crackle at the residents in the novel. Like Mrs. Mabel and Mrs. Harriet fighting, the grocery-store scene of them putting things in their baskets, and them falling in love. I was relating so hard to Annie and how awkward she was on dates and when it came to Will, calling him every single interation of his name, she felt much better, even comfortable with him. And Will really wanted to leave Rome, until he realized that he didn’t want to.

But before he came to the revelation, Will didn’t do romance. The reason why he didn’t do romance or relationships was because of his parents. He had a pretty bad relationship with it, so that’s why he always have one night stands and little flings. But when it came to Anne Walker, he started to become her practice date, he started to fall for her. He’d get jealous whenever she even talks to a man in his vicinity, he even drinks the consent juice and asks her if it’s alright if he touches her.

And Annie was the one character I really liked in this book. She told Will not to call her ‘Angel Annie’ because she didn’t like it, she reads romance novels and tries to hide it, but at the end, she showed her best friend and sisters after finally explaining herself and what happened between her and Will, and also went on her first date after her date disaster, when the guy said that ‘she was boring’. But I really liked how brave she was when she told Will the things she wanna do, but she couldn’t because everyone put her in a box and she wants to live her life…

…and Will, whom I love to bits, tells her that “You were waiting on someone to let you be yourself.”

And that quote nearly sent me.

And the ENDING. I loved it. It almost made me cry. Now I wished someone did that for me, because it was so good. Sarah Adams became one of my new favorite romance author and I need to read the other two books because this one was really cute and really cozy as well.

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