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I suppose this comment is inspired by the recent "Legends & Lattes", a fantasy novel winning various awards, starring a barista Orc... https://www.amazon.com/L

• crooked-v 2y ago
  For me, that book sits in a weird crux of interesting yet underwhelming. I think it suffers a lot from the implied quasi-D&D setting intersecting with modern assumptions. It has a lot of absentee worldbuilding that amounts to a blank space implying all the stuff you're already used to from the real world, instead of doing anything interesting with it being fantasy.