Viv has a dream: She wishes to forge a new life doing something no one else in the village of Thune has done, let alone heard of, before. Rather, this is a cozy and frothy little story about an orc named Viv who strives to be something more than the warrior bounty hunter she’s been for twenty-two years. No one is out to save the world in this story, no extreme feats of heroism or existential threats to all personkind exist, no epic battles are waged on its pages. Review: Travis Baldree’s delightful Legends & Lattes refers to itself as “A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes,” and while that may be so-depending on how we determine the value of Viv’s dreams and aspirations-this is also a story of friendship and found family that is nothing less than heartwarming. To finally build something that will last, Viv will need some new partners and a different kind of resolve. Old frenemies and Thune’s shady underbelly may just upset her plans. However, her dreams of a fresh start pulling shots instead of swinging swords are hardly a sure bet. A forgotten legend, a fabled artifact, and an unreasonable amount of hope lead her to the streets of Thune, where she plans to open the first coffee shop the city has ever seen. It’s a fanciful and thoroughly charming book, sweet and kind and hopeful.īlurb: Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian cashes out of the warrior’s life with one final score. Legends & Lattes isn’t a blustery book filled with action and drama. Should have been $200, the performance those two musicians gave.īut it's just part of the life you catch as the hubble bubbles start gargling again and your lips pucker with the pleasure of this late latte at the legendary Café Lulu.At a Glance: Two people finding love when they weren’t even looking for it is the luckiest kind of love story, and watching these women shyly and cautiously dance that dance was lovely. And, hey, crowd drifts off, the couple hugs, then the man drops, like two dollars into their guitar case. Pretty soon they're jiving wild on the corner like they should be wearing zoot suits. This couple starts dancing as they rev up the beat. Right now, I'm doing this and watching a couple of musicians attack a song at the corner of E and Fifth.
Go ape with pleasure as the coffee melts the chocolate and makes for an über-rich swallow. Now, take a sip and swirl the latte around your chocolate chunk.
Then take one of the pieces of chocolate and stick it on top of your tongue. You wait for the coffee to cool enough to swill around in your mouth. The kicker? You get two blocks of chocolate in the saucer.
Yes, it costs five bucks, but this time o'night, it's worth it. If I had time I'd go for that little chunk of wickedness, the chocolate marquise chocolate cake dessert ($8). Even if you're just watching others doing it. I don't smoke cigarettes, but there's something really social about passing the hookah around. Another good reason to come here for coffee, desserts, and hookahs. He's muttering something about "Coming and taking our American women. The conversation kinda tones down as this drunk guy weaves into view. And you want languages? Serbo-Croatian, Polish, French, Spanish, Korean, Turkish, Vietnamese, Arabic, Portuguese, even some English every now and then. But some of that remains.Ĭustomers here seem like they all believe in the credo of Live Fast, Die Young and Make a Beautiful Corpse. They gave it an atmosphere you could never franchise. So okay, the Russian girls who used to run this place like it was a sexy high-class brasserie are all gone. And the mumble of conversation that goes with them. And all around me, the smell and gurgle of hookah pipes.
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