Name: A Coup of Tea
Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)

Casey  Blair

A Coup of Tea

Casey Blair

When the fourth princess of Istalam is due to dedicate herself to a path serving the crown, she makes a choice that shocks everyone, herself most of all: She leaves.

In hiding and exiled from power, Miyara finds her place running a tea shop in a struggling community that sits on the edge of a magical disaster zone. But there's more brewing under the surface of this city-hidden magic, and hidden machinations-that threaten all the people who've helped her make her own way.

Miyara may not be a princess anymore, but with a teapot in hand she'll risk her newfound freedom to discover a more meaningful kind of power.

A Coup of Tea is the first book of the Tea Princess Chronicles, a cozy fantasy series full of magic tea, friendship, and lifting people up even when the odds seem impossible.

The Tea Princess Chronicles #1

Anyaconda

I was really in the mood for a cozy fantasy. Since reading Legends & Latte's, I have been on the hunt for more and A Coup of Tea was perfect. 

There's lots of everything in this first book, tea, family and relationship themes, romance, adventure, some action and political intrigue. I loved the character development and focus on finding your purpose. The pacing was good and the plot interesting.

I'm definitely checking out the next books in the series. I can highly recommend this to anyone who needs a cozy fantasy fix.

Thank you Netgalley for providing me with an e-copy in exchange for an honest review. All opinions expressed are my own.

This is a cozy, slice-of-life fantasy with lots and lots of tea. Perfect for curling up with a hot drink while reading. I was half way through when I realized I needed to order books 2 and 3 asap. 

Princess Miyara must decide how she will serve her kingdom as the fourth Princess of Istalam. Uncertain she can follow in her sisters' footsteps the way her family expects, she walks away from it all to forge her own path and to serve the people of her kingdom the best way she knows how- through healing power of tea. 

There is a little bit of love story, A LOT of found family, and a dash of political drama. 

CW for racism and classism- this is an important theme in the story that our heroine fights against.

Emma

This is a cozy, slice-of-life fantasy with lots and lots of tea. Perfect for curling up with a hot drink while reading. I was half way through when I realized I needed to order books 2 and 3 asap. 

Princess Miyara must decide how she will serve her kingdom as the fourth Princess of Istalam. Uncertain she can follow in her sisters' footsteps the way her family expects, she walks away from it all to forge her own path and to serve the people of her kingdom the best way she knows how- through healing power of tea. 

There is a little bit of love story, A LOT of found family, and a dash of political drama. 

CW for racism and classism- this is an important theme in the story that our heroine fights against.

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.

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