Welcome to Fae Cafe

High Court of the Coffee Bean, Book 1

De: Jennifer Kropf

Narrado por: Sarah Kisko

There are 10 golden rules if you want to survive an encounter with a fae:

1. Don’t ask their name.
2. If they ask you what your name is, lie.
3. Avoid looking directly into their eyes.
4. Don’t invite them to your book club.
5. Don’t instigate a snowball fight.
6. Never let them burn their mouth on coffee.
7. Don’t ask them where they’re from.
8. Don’t tell them where you live.
9. Never mention their queen.
10. Don’t try to kill them with an ordinary human gun.

If you fail to do any of these things, enslave them immediately.

On a cozy fall morning, Kate Kole is nestled in a coffee shop in the city of Toronto reading her favourite novel, when she accidentally kills a guy who's being rude to the coffee shop's cashier. Unfortunately for Kate, the person she killed was a fae assassin of the North Corner of Ever, visiting the human realm in secret.

From there, four deadly fae assassins come to the human realm to hunt her down for breaking a fairy law and killing one of their own. Leading them is Prince Cressica Alabastian, the most feared and deadly fae assassin of the North and heir to the North Corner of Ever.

After the assassins arrive in the human realm, things go terribly wrong. To Prince Cressica's horror, his assassins unwittingly get roped into running a cozy café on Kate Kole's behalf. To blend in, the fae assassins are forced to learn how to do basic human activities like cleaning up after themselves, driving without road rage, reading popular fantasy books at book club without getting into alpha male fights over what they’re reading, and, in general, be nice, all to blend into regular human society.

With a temper like no other, and deadly power that's unmatched, Prince Cressica seeks to get revenge on Kate Kole. But as he aims to strike where it will hurt her the most, the Prince finds himself enchanted by his human target in more ways than one. And when the darkness of the Ever Corners comes knocking at the human realm's door, he needs to make a choice that could cost him everything.

Welcome to Fae Café is like Holly Black’s tricky Folk of the Air schemes meeting your grandmother’s freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. With a sweet, comical romance and relatable slice-of-life moments colliding with manipulative fairy games and deathmatches, this book puts a spin on the typical fae stories listeners know and love and aims to be the coziest rom-com fae book of all time.

This book may leave you with answers to questions you never know you wanted to ask, such as, "How many fae assassins does it take to screw in a lightbulb?"

With coziness for days, Welcome to Fae Café is a new spin on some of the most popular fae fantasy tropes, in a setting where fae most definitely don't belong. If you liked LEGENDS AND LATTES, by Travis Baldree, this may just be your cup of tea. (Or coffee.)

©2023 Jennifer Kropf (P)2023 Jennifer Kropf

Fun, Cozy read

such a fun and cozy read! really enjoyed the story, and the funny antics of the fae assasins as they take on running thr Cafe :)

Cute and light-hearted!

This was a fun fantasy story. It was an easy read and I enjoyed it after a slow start.

Absolutely Adorable

This is possibly the cutest slice of life fantasy I’ve read. Perfect for when you’re in the mood for a light cozy read.

Kate and the Prince

At first I wasn't sure if this was the book for me, but then I really got into the sarcastic tone and enjoyed it more and more. Kate Cole and Prince Cressica Alabastian really had it out for one another and listening as Kate really started to grasp what was happening in her life and to her was fabulous. Looking forward to the next one.

The one thing that kept bothering me tho was how on opening day Kate just left.. she also wasn't really there to run her cafe, which isn't how that works.
4.5 rounded up.

Adorable

I loved it. This is a cozy read and I'm so excited I stumbled upon it.

Inventive storyline and great back stories for characters

Great story telling, character relationships, and twist ending. Can't wait til the sequel comes out!

The Refreshing Cuppa I Needed

I've been burned out on audiobooks for awhile and this was just what I needed to pull me out of my rut. This leaned into fae lore in a way I've only recently seen in A.J. Millican's work (world building, not spice level) that kept essentials like not having all knowledge of the human realm, fae are not all the same, and bargains being kept to the letter. The narrator did an excellent job and their performance combined with the story kept me coming back for more. I savored this book sipping on it any chance I got. I look forward to listening to more of her work.

Soo good.

This was so good. Even better than I expected. It was funny, fun, sweet and romantic

Creative to the max

I loved the authors introduction of Fae to the “real” world. The obsession with chocolate chip cookies. It is a cozy read.

it made me get attached to the characters

would of liked a little more romance but it was still good really liked the characters