Brigands & Breadknives
core novel 2025 Legends & Lattes
Record
| First published | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.03 (39,451 ratings, collected 2026-09-14) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781250334886 |
Synopsis
Brigands & Breadknives, the third novel in Travis Baldree's Legends & Lattes series, follows Fern, the rattkin bookseller introduced in Bookshops and Bonedust, as she relocates from the coastal town of Murk to open a new shop in Thune, near her friend Viv's coffee house. Still cynical and unsettled despite her fresh start, Fern falls asleep after a night of drinking following her shop's opening and wakes far from home, inside the traveling cart of the legendary elf warrior Astryx One-Ear. Astryx is transporting a captured goblin thief named Zyll, wanted for a substantial bounty, and Fern finds herself swept into the pair's journey toward the city of Amberlin. Pursued along the way by rival bounty hunters and drawn steadily deeper into a world of adventure she never sought, Fern is forced to reconsider the direction her life has taken.
Where it sits
- Universe: Legends & Lattes
- Series: Legends & Lattes core; position 3 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Travis Baldree
Notes
- From the series record (Legends & Lattes): New author record. A 'cozy fantasy' series -- low-stakes, found-family stories following retired adventurers opening small businesses in the same world -- credited with helping define the cozy fantasy subgenre's contemporary popularity. Legends & Lattes (2022) was a finalist for BOTH the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the 2023 Nebula Award for Best Novel (both losses, no win) -- an unusually strong critical result for a debut cozy fantasy novel. Bookshops & Bonedust (2023) is a prequel (internal chronology precedes Legends & Lattes) and Brigands & Breadknives (2025) is its direct sequel; all 3 are registered by publication year rather than internal chronology, matching this project's standing preference (also applied to Roots of Chaos). A free short story, 'Goblins & Greatcoats,' was found but not researched to this project's sourcing standard (exact first-publication date and venue unconfirmed) and is not registered -- logged as a future Expanded Canon candidate. A 4th novel is in development per the author's own public updates but is undated and isn't counted here yet. In progress.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Legends & Lattes: position 3 of 3: previous Bookshops & Bonedust (2023)
Sources
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