A review by ginger_curmudgeon
A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal

  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

The pace is probably my biggest gripe with this book. The story is broken into three parts. The first part and some of the second, have a rather slow, inconsistent pace. Not that I’d want every minute detail of everything done, but there are times where something is glossed over or happens out of view of the reader. I don’t hate that, but I don’t love it. It throws off the pace of the story.

I liked just about all of the main characters in this found family. They have Ocean’s Eleven vibes with more of a connection. They actually care about each other. I think they were all my favorite at some point. One might have become my most disliked, but I’ll skip the details to avoid spoiling anything.

Is it weird that I found myself wanting to open a tea shop/bar? 

There’s a lot of snark among the characters and I love it, of course. My favorite line, though, is “why save the world when you can have tea?”.

When do we get book two?!