Reviews and Comments

Started reading this immediately after I closed Bookshops and Bonedust and I did like this better. The « Coffee Shop AU » vibe did not put me off (former barista, I don't find coffee shops cozy, it's a me problem, not a fanfic problem) and I liked all the characters though there was a bit of googling to figure out the contours of this fantasy world. Orcs are unmistakable, but I had no idea what a rattkin or a hob is, for example. I still don't know what the character Calamity is supposed to look like. But it didn't much matter, because I had a blast reading this, and would definitely read it again.

I really liked Satchel, and the author character was great too. And though I like a lot of the individual ingredients in this particular hot drink, there were parts of this that I stumbled over, I'm not entirely sure I can quite explain it. I wonder if it's because I read it before Legends & Lattes? Maybe I should have gone in order of publication, instead.

As someone who has never found the "Coffee Shop AU" genre of fanfiction particularly reassuring or cozy (blame it on the time I worked as a barista, it sucked) it took me a while to get to these but so many people have asked me what I think of this series as if it was a given that I've read them already, well, perhaps it is time to submit to these expectations.

What a title!

Ça a l'air bon ça.

Petite découverte à la librairie du coin. J'aime beaucoup Stengers en général donc j'ai hâte de le lire.

Pour mon book club ce samedi!

Ça a l'ai intéressant.

J'ai relu le premier tome d'un trait, qui est un bon exemple de ennemies to lovers-I-mean-still-ennemies-jk. Ça fait des années depuis que j'ai lu cette série pour la première fois, il y a des passages du premier tome qui sont restés gravés dans ma mémoire, qui est bon signe. J'espère que le deuxième tome sera similaire.

Lu d'un trait ce matin.

Livre qui bouleverse. La cruauté et la violence sont d'une banalité écœurante, encore aujourd'hui.

J'ai apprécié le récit de l'intervention de Denise Bombardier en 1990.

À lire, absolument à lire, mais en sachant qu'on se prépare à brailler.

So @leifur mentioned this book to me last year and I forgot about it until I was rewatching a video on YouTube that mentioned the O.C. and had Ben McKenzie in the included clips, Leif mentioned the book again and now I'm going to read it. (I know, I know, I'm supposed to be reading more fiction, lalalala, this is fine!)