This was so CUTE and FUN!! A fun little rough-mercenary-gets-wounded-in-battle-and-therefore-stranded-in-a-small-town-they-don’t-want-to-be-in-and-likewise-might-not-want-anything-to-do-with-them tale? AND it’s fantasy so all the characters are orcs and potty mouthed rats and elves and gnomes and dwarves??? The points hit in this story are relatively predictable but the actual events aren’t, if that makes any sense. I knew what shape things were going to eventually take but I had no clue as to how we would get there or what it would look like when we did. The main character learns to enjoy reading so there are snippets of other books within this book which I thought was neat! All the characters are lovable and silly. Big fun!! It’s a prequel to another book but I haven’t read that one yet oops