Bookshops & Bonedust
- 356
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 1 week on the list, peaked at #5
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Our view
“Bookshops & Bonedust” is cosy fantasy that earns its warmth: its people are decent to one another, and Baldree makes that convincing, not cloying. A quiet bookshop storyline runs alongside a more dangerous one, so there is some tension without much darkness. Readers who want moral ambiguity or high drama will not find them here. It is a prequel to “Legends & Lattes”.
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About the book
Bookshops & Bonedust is a fantasy novel written by American author Travis Baldree. It was first published in trade paperback and ebook by Tor Books and in audiobook by Macmillan Audio in November, 2023. It is a prequel to the author's 2022 novel Legends & Lattes.
Reading order · Legends & Lattes
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8.38.3 / 10 - Brigands & Breadknives
8.18.1 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.4 across 772 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 84% of the weight and the score stays at 8.3 — the Fantasy average of 8.0 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 8 | 1% |
| Hardcover | 8.4 | 764 | 99% |
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It has 356 pages — shorter than 87% of the ranked books in Fantasy.
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