A Tempest of Tea

336 pages

English language

Published 2024 by Pan Macmillan.

ISBN:
978-1-5290-9894-5
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On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a criminal mastermind and collector of secrets. Her prestigious tearoom transforms into an illegal bloodhouse by night, catering to the vampires feared by society. But when her establishment is threatened, Arthie is forced to strike an unlikely deal with an alluring adversary to save it—she can’t do the job alone.

Calling on some of the city’s most skilled outcasts, Arthie hatches a plan to infiltrate the sinister, glittering vampire society known as the Athereum. But not everyone in her ragtag crew is on her side, and as the truth behind the heist unfolds, Arthie finds herself in the midst of a conspiracy that will threaten the world as she knows it. Dark, action-packed, and swoonworthy, this is Hafsah Faizal better than ever.

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reviewed Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal (Blood and Tea, #1)

Ein Hauch von Tee und Frustration.

Irgendwie bin ich mit dem Vampier-Thema ja durch, aber ich mag nun mal Tee, deswegen habe ich dieses Buch doch gelesen. Ich bin froh, dass diese Geschichte im ersten Moment nicht so umfangreich daher kommt, denn sie fühlte sich trotzdem langwierig an.

Das Teehaus hat mir als Handlungsort sehr gefallen, aber die Charaktere und alles drum herum hat sich sehr bemüht angefühlt. Irgendwie war das alles zu glatt und stimmig. Ich weiß das klingt komisch als Kritik, aber besser kann ich es nicht beschreiben. So als wäre die Geschichte genauso angelegt, weil eine bestimmte Zielgruppe das genauso kaufen möchte.

Die Handlung kam auch ewig nicht in Gang, weil alle ständig damit beschäftigt waren sich bedeutungsvoll in die Augen zu starren und dabei ganz erregt zu atmen. Ich weiß nicht, ob ich vorher jemals so viele tiefgründige Beschreibungen von Augenfarben gelesen habe. Vor lauter Atmen und Starren blieb die Handlung ganz …

Disappointing in more ways than it interested me.

Content warning I just have to spoil some things in order to actually talk about the few interesting elements in an otherwise obnoxious book.

Read if you like coconuts

The largest part of the book is about an elaborate heist, so if you like heists, knock yourself out. However, it's embedded into a larger major story, which doesn't really need that heist - it would work just as fine without it. Then again, the Spindrift Tearoom & Bloodhouse concept is pretty cool. And: coconuts!

reviewed Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal (Blood and Tea, #1)

None

“You don’t have to trust me.”
“I don’t.”


This book was an odd experience for me. On one hand, there were a lot of things about it that I liked. On the other hand, the way they were presented/put together kept me… detached? disengaged? throughout the story. I just couldn’t connect properly with anyone, even though the character have exactly the archetypes I often fall for and a really cool web of relationships. Another member of the book club I read this for suggested that perhaps it was hard to connect with the characters because they spent so much observing each other and commenting on each other. You read a chapter in Jun’s POV, he’s reflecting on Arthie’s or Flick’s recent actions. The next one is in Flick’s POV, and she’s focused on Jun. This kind of thing. It didn’t happen all of the time, and each of the three …

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