Bookshops & Bonedust

This is a somewhat longer novel than [b:Legends & Lattes 63277682 Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1) Travis Baldree https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1698323369l/63277682.SY75.jpg 94968745], and there's a bit more story to it, but it's basically the same kind of thing. This is a prequel, so we meet Viv the orc earlier in her life, and she gets involved with a bookshop rather than with a coffee shop. It's not her bookshop, but she gets involved with it anyway.She gets a wounded leg in the prologue and has to spend most of the story recovering; she's more or less fit for action by the end, having made a bunch of new friends meanwhile.I don't think this is first-class fiction, but it's readable and quite congenial.