10 Cozy Fantasy Books Like Legends and Lattes

If you loved seeing girlfriends operating a store collectively in Legends and Lattes, you’re going to like this e book that takes that premise and runs with it. After an in depth name lastly convinces Reyna to stop her job guarding an detached queen, she and her mage girlfriend, Kianthe, run away to stay out their dream: opening up a store the place Reyna can promote tea and Kianthe can learn to her coronary heart’s content material. But with a vengeful queen looking out for her runaway guard and essentially the most highly effective mage in all of the land, this little store on the fringe of dragon territory could be simply as full of mishaps as cozy chats by the hearth.

This cozy fantasy additionally encompasses a café the place all are welcome — together with the lifeless. After dying of a coronary heart assault, Wallace discovers he didn’t make a variety of mates in life. And now a beginner reaper has come to gather him. He’s taken to Charon’s Crossing, an uncommon tea store the place the kindhearted proprietor, Hugo, helps souls cross over. But Wallace isn’t so certain he desires to maneuver on simply but. The life he’s forsaking isn’t what he hoped for, however it won’t be too late to create a future price dying for.

An 11-foot-tall, battle-worn drider (that may be a type of humanoid spider) won’t be the likeliest candidate to open a espresso store, however after retiring from the Ember Guard, Gwen’s prepared for a change. Her abilities on the battlefield, nonetheless, aren’t precisely translating into making espresso. And it’s solely with the assistance of some unlikely mates, each new and previous, that Gwen may be capable of preserve this new enterprise going. The premise is sort of much like Legends and Lattes (although this story predates it), with a heartwarming solid of characters however no romance.

This candy graphic novel is simply as cozy because it comes and filled with characters and settings that followers of Legends and Lattes will love. A tough-of-hearing teen witch serving to her grandmothers run their magical bookshop is reunited together with her childhood greatest pal, a werewolf on the run named Tam. And after serving to Tam fend off a horse demon within the woods, Nova learns that there are darkish forces keen to say the facility of wolves, and it’s solely collectively that they’ll be capable of cease it. This graphic novel has all of it: candy, sapphic romance, teen witches, werewolves, magical bookstores, and all of the feels.

It is sensible that the majority of my recs for Legends and Lattes read-a-likes can be cozy fantasy since that’s the style that e book falls into. But cozy sci-fi hits a few of those self same notes, and A Psalm for the Wild-Built specifically, has a variety of similarities followers will love. Not solely does this novella observe a tea monk (sure, that may be a monk who serves tea from a touring caravan), however it additionally encompasses a actually beautiful and heartfelt friendship between stated monk and a wild robotic harking back to the discovered household friendships we see in Legends and Lattes. The Monk and Robot duology is stuffed with introspection on what it means to be human — or robotic — and to stay a great life.

A dimension-exploring witch and an eldritch monster discover surprising romance whereas attempting to go unnoticed (and keep away from being consumed) by the Endless. Sian is simply thrilled to not have been instantly consumed when she managed to get her portal to the Endless dimension to work. But a shape-shifting tentacle monster retains popping up and attempting to flirt together with her. And as a lot as Trillin desires this human witch to note her, she’s additionally attempting actually laborious to maintain them each from being eaten. What’s a tentacle creature attempting to determine their very own personhood to do?

In Britain, witches are a really secretive set. Mika Moon isn’t any totally different. But when she’s supplied a job instructing three younger women the best way to be witches, she’s too intrigued to not present up. And when it seems the ladies actually are witches being raised collectively by a cadre of nonmagical caretakers, she is aware of she has to assist — even when doing so breaks all the foundations. But the extra time she spends with the youngsters and their makeshift household, the extra Mika falls for them. Even the standoffish librarian who loves the ladies like they’re his personal begins to develop on her. But there’s a cause witches aren’t supposed to collect. And quickly, Mika must reckon with whether or not the implications of staying collectively are worse than being separated.

Instead of a espresso store like in Legends and Lattes, think about a tea store run by a centuries-old robotic attempting to maintain her late proprietor’s dream alive. Now enter a wandering AI restore technician who’s by no means settled down in her life, and you’ve bought the proper recipe for a candy romance. But rising anti-robot sentiment threatens the tea store, and it’s provided that they work collectively and belief one another that Clara and Sal will be capable of make it by.

As if having the ability to see fortunes in individuals’s tea leaves wasn’t unhealthy sufficient, Vanessa Yu’s mother and father have determined to handle her nonexistent love life by hiring a matchmaker from Shanghai. Even worse: the day earlier than assembly the matchmaker she foresees her personal demise in a visitors accident. There’s no method Vanessa will be capable of transfer ahead together with her life so long as she’s caught with these skills. So when a chance to affix her eccentric aunt in Paris comes alongside, she jumps on the probability. And doing somewhat matchmaking of her personal, attempting to arrange her aunt with a long-lost love, could be simply the factor she wants to determine her life.

What if, as a substitute of settling down after her adventuring days, Legends and Lattes had been all about Viv being dragged on an journey with a good-looking somebody when all she’d wished was to have some peace and quiet? Yeah, that’s just about this e book. After getting drunk and saving a demon, Cinnamon is dragged on a quest to assist Fallon save his individuals from an evil witch. She’d in all probability be extra aggravated if he didn’t preserve burning his shirt off, although, TBH. This is the quirky, comedic fantasy romance of your desires.