Brigands & Breadknives

 

Brigands & Breadknives is the third book in the Legends & Lattes cozy fantasy series by Travis Baldree. Released 11th Nov 2025 by Macmillan on their Tor imprint, it's 325 pages and is available in hardcover, audio, and ebook formats. Paperback due out from the same publisher in third quarter 2026 from the same publisher. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links. 

This is such an engaging and appealing fantasy series featuring themes of found family, honor, and courage, and with and a wonderfully three dimensional characters *full* of whimsy, some salty language, an overweight mini-gryphon pet (he's not fat, he's fluffy), a legendary elven sword maiden bounty hunter, a kleptomaniac goblin, and lots of adventure. 

There are elements of mystery along with the fantasy and magic. It's a sequel to Bookshops and Bonedust, and as such benefits from being read in the publishing order: Legends first then Bookshops, then Brigands. 

The unabridged audiobook has a run time of 8 hours and 24 minutes and is very well narrated by the author himself. He has a warm light baritone voice with a hint of south-central USA (but without any intrusive twang, whether by training or design). He voices his characters well and distinctly and between the print and audio versions, the audiobook format gets the edge. Sound and production quality are high throughout the read.

Four and a half stars for the book, five for the wonderfully nuanced audiobook version. Highly recommended for fans of cozy fantasy. One of the better releases for 2025.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.