Brigands & Breadknives
ISBN: 9781035035960
Description
Fern has weathered the stillness and storms of a bookseller’s life for decades, but now, in the face of crippling ennui, transplants herself to the city of Thune to hang out her shingle beside a long-absent friend’s coffee shop. What could be a better pairing? Surely a charming renovation montage will cure what ails her!
Reviewed on 15th August 2026
The third novel on the series serves as a sequel to both of the first two, bringing a character from the second book into the setting of the first, as she relocates her entire life looking for something that's missing in her life.
This is a D&D-style fantasy setting, but loses some of the cosiness of the previous two novels to take us out on the road adventuring more, with more combat, danger, and peril.
It's a fun little adventure but I do think it's lost some of the charm by becoming more adventurous and less about building something. While the character and her journey are definitely interesting to read, they intentionally inspire a different set of emotion in the reader, and I think I was expecting more of the same instead.
There's lots of humour though still, and mystery connected to it, as we try to work out what exactly this quest is all about.
