Books I read in April 2026

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree I really enjoyed Travis Baldree’s first cozy fantasy novel about Viv the orc and her non-adventurous adventures serving this new-fangled beverage called coffee . Bookshops & Bonedust is a prequel to that story, taking place all the way at the other end of Viv’s career as monster-killer-for-hire, though the tone stays cozy. Bookshops opens with Viv hacking down thralls in a big fight against a necromancer. She overestimates her abilities and is cut down, nearly killed,