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3.5 rounded down

Queer, cozy fantasy with a female fighter orc getting injured and forced to recuperate in a sleepy town, where she makes friends, a lover, and still manages to get up to shenanigans. Fun read, though I do think the cozy vibes ended up feeling a little too low-stakes for me, and I was glad there was at least some necromancer plotting. This is a prequel novel, and I hadn't quite processed what that would mean for the ending -- it added a bit of a bittersweet twist to the end which I liked. I enjoyed this enough that I'll probably plan to read the main book, but it didn't totally absorb me, which I think it more a testament to the tone/genre not totally being my bag.