“The earth that wakes one human heart to feeling / Can center both the worlds of Heaven and Hell.”

[larryhammer]

An important genre question: Does Legends & Lattes count as a Coffee Shop AU of bog-standard high fantasy?

On the one hand, it has a bog-standard high fantasy setting, one that just happens to have a coffee shop (it’s an exotic drink imported from gnomish sources), which means it’s not actually an Alternate Universe. On the other hand, the story leans on several tropes of Coffee Shop AUs.

Please discuss.

It is, btw, a nice, cozy story. Recommended if you want one of those right now. I did.

---L.

Subject quote from “Often rebuked, yet always back returning,” Emily Brontë.

Comments

[ranunculus]

I understand you first sentence. I understand the first seven words of the next sentence. I've read a lot of fantasy but I'm stumbling on Coffee Shop AU and bog-standard. Obviously I haven't explored the universe of fan-fic enough! Legends & Lates was a pleasant little book though.

[larryhammer]

Quite pleasant. I'm already forgetting many details, though.