“The glow in The Perch dimmed, her corner untouched by the blast of light and heat from the hearth across the room, so she asked for a lantern to read by. The kid obliged, and despite the uncomfortable chair and the ache in her leg and the backwater in which she’d been abandoned, she was absorbed. She was transported. She was elsewhere.”
First Line: "Eighteen! bellowed Viv bringing her saber around in a flat curve that battered the wight's skull off its spine.
In Bookshops and Bonedust, the main characters are anthromorphic animals or not human. Viv is an orc, a female fighter, wounded while searching for a necromancer. She's left in a back water town, called Murk, to recuperate. While there, she gets involved with Fern, a rattkin, who is a walking, talking, foul mouthed rat with a pet dog who is a cross between a dog and a bird. Fenn owns a bookshop in a sad state of disrepair. Viv befriends and helps Fern, all the while falling in deep like with another dwarf, plus establishing friendships with a few other odd characters.
Meanwhile, another bad guy coincidently hides the spell book in Fern's bookstore, from the necromancer, whom Viv and her crew had been searching for, and ends up dead. Viv and friends find the book, and then his duffel which contains an animated skeleton, which means the necromancer will eventually be showing up on their doorstep.
Although she became a beloved part of the town, it didn't stop her from leaving in the end. After all, it was a temporary spot. However, she left the place better when she left. Charming and entertaining, Bookshops and Bonedust is the prequel to Legends and Lattes which I haven't read yet.
336 Pages
Tor Publishing,
Fantasy, prequel
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