Casey  Blair

A Coup of Tea

Thank you for the arc! 3.5

So overall i really liked this book, the magic in it was interesting and the story was too, tha characters were also lovely.

Miraya is a great protagonist, she is privileged and she acknowledge it and tries to learn, she waits and listen. She obviusly makes mistake, but she at least tries, from her position of privilegde to change the supression the people are under. She stops being a princess but she doesn't do it because she doesn't want to serve the people, she does it because she really wants to help, but she knows she can't do so in the palace, and she was right. She also doesn't judge, she just listens, she accepts everyone as they are which is really nice.

Lowryn was also a great character (in general all of them), she was annoying in certain parts tho, but we get to know why she act certains ways and is great.

What I didn't like was the romance part, in any of the characters, I think was pretty unnecesary to the plot and everytime they talked about this or we were on a romance scene I felt disconnected from the story which I didn't like. I wish the romance would have been relevant to anything, but it was not.

I feel also that everything happened way too fast, everything happened in less than a month if I counted the time correctly, and I don't mind everything happening so fast, but this just made the romance thing more annoying. It was out of nowhere, and it was falling for someone just as you saw them, which was the most annoying part. In this part everhything was way too rushed, I really don't mind neither care about the romance.

And it annoys me more that Daniel would have been a great character, but he was just there to be Miraya partnet at the end. He could have been more important to the plot, but he was not. It was a waste of a character. I don't mean that romance didn't fit in the story, but it should have been fitted in any other way. Also sorry but Entero and Lowryn romance is just as absurd as Miraya and Daniel's. Out of nowhere and just because yes.

I have to say too that I loved the inclusion in this book, is pretty natural and you can see it but is not forced at all, which makes it a great inclusion even if is just for secondary characters mostly. It was subtle but noticeable, that was great.

So, it was a great book, I definitely would reccomend it. Really cozy and I'm interested at least for the rest of the saga to see what could happen to the characters, and to see Entero return (not to be with Lowryn just because I really enjoyed his character). It was a nice read.

A Coup of Tea

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