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A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Its vampire meets a tea, what's happened next? I love to say that a Tempest Of Tea makes a good concept to mixing up about fantasy, adventurous, and mysterious. This is the first novel I read from the author and gives predictable feedback. I can tell I will have a love-hate relationship since beginning I started to read.
Arthie, a cunning orphan, runs a tea room by day and a forbidden bloodhouse by night. When her world is threatened, she assembles a ragtag crew for a daring heist into the glittering vampire society. But loyalties are murky, and Arthie finds herself caught in a conspiracy that could shatter everything.
Before that, I wanted to mention characters that appear a lot. They are, Arthie is described as a strong girl, dark, and stunning. She has a power (not kind of a real power. But, everyone knows She's not weak). Jin, unbiological Arthie's brother, funny, and loyal. Flick is recruited for her skills in forgery, likely due to her background from a high-society family (And, also her mother has a some kind of important roles). Laith, a boy from Arawiya who has his own reason there. Matteo, a vampire. And, Pann will appear in act two as a vampire who has a kind of relationship with Arthie (not in a romantic way).
And, Arthie's adventures with her crew are begins.
The storyline divided into three acts. 1st acts explained a lot about the world building, a situation was happening there, a reason of Arthie and Jin did that, a agreement, recruitment for crew, and also the plans. It is a slow paced storyline, I almost got bored. The author seems like want to give us more time to give us a strong background story, but, ended up some people will thinking it is a waste of time. It's not that bad after all. It just affected into the next acts.
Moving into the 2nd acts, the story began! I love the action things. The tension of the situation that happens made me thrilled. Jin has so much pain here, but I'm glad to know some secret has been revealed. And, I got goosebumps for a second. In this, I think I love how the author can connect the every dot. Something happens for a rational reason. So, every story before also has other stories from different perspectives. It gives every character that comes to having a relationship that looks vague on the front, but in reality, it is quite strong.
In the 3rd acts, the conflicts become bigger, and we are moving into another secret that revealed. What's pain in the past? What's the other reason behind this? Who is the real indetity of every character? Also, the authors added some good twists.
But, because there's no strong character developments, some chapters seem lacking. For me, it's happened in two chapters between Arthie and Laith. If in the beginning there's some parts that can show their strong relationships, at least a little chemistry from them, in the some parts what's happening will become more emotional. Sadly, I can't empathize with that. But, I love a little romance for Jin and Flick. And Matteo is such a potential character, but he apparence like a shadow.
It would be great in the act one we can get more story about the characters more depper, so, at least when an important part shows up, at least we can cleary undestand the reason why the characters says or acts.
I do not have a problem with a predictable plot, I just wish it could become a good plot if it can be explained well.
I still like this one, I still can enjoy everything, especially the actions. And, also the twits. But, I really hope in the next book it is become more better.
Arthie, a cunning orphan, runs a tea room by day and a forbidden bloodhouse by night. When her world is threatened, she assembles a ragtag crew for a daring heist into the glittering vampire society. But loyalties are murky, and Arthie finds herself caught in a conspiracy that could shatter everything.
Before that, I wanted to mention characters that appear a lot. They are, Arthie is described as a strong girl, dark, and stunning. She has a power (not kind of a real power. But, everyone knows She's not weak). Jin, unbiological Arthie's brother, funny, and loyal. Flick is recruited for her skills in forgery, likely due to her background from a high-society family (And, also her mother has a some kind of important roles). Laith, a boy from Arawiya who has his own reason there. Matteo, a vampire. And, Pann will appear in act two as a vampire who has a kind of relationship with Arthie (not in a romantic way).
And, Arthie's adventures with her crew are begins.
The storyline divided into three acts. 1st acts explained a lot about the world building, a situation was happening there, a reason of Arthie and Jin did that, a agreement, recruitment for crew, and also the plans. It is a slow paced storyline, I almost got bored. The author seems like want to give us more time to give us a strong background story, but, ended up some people will thinking it is a waste of time. It's not that bad after all. It just affected into the next acts.
Moving into the 2nd acts, the story began! I love the action things. The tension of the situation that happens made me thrilled. Jin has so much pain here, but I'm glad to know some secret has been revealed. And, I got goosebumps for a second. In this, I think I love how the author can connect the every dot. Something happens for a rational reason. So, every story before also has other stories from different perspectives. It gives every character that comes to having a relationship that looks vague on the front, but in reality, it is quite strong.
In the 3rd acts, the conflicts become bigger, and we are moving into another secret that revealed. What's pain in the past? What's the other reason behind this? Who is the real indetity of every character? Also, the authors added some good twists.
But, because there's no strong character developments, some chapters seem lacking. For me, it's happened in two chapters between Arthie and Laith. If in the beginning there's some parts that can show their strong relationships, at least a little chemistry from them, in the some parts what's happening will become more emotional. Sadly, I can't empathize with that. But, I love a little romance for Jin and Flick. And Matteo is such a potential character, but he apparence like a shadow.
It would be great in the act one we can get more story about the characters more depper, so, at least when an important part shows up, at least we can cleary undestand the reason why the characters says or acts.
I do not have a problem with a predictable plot, I just wish it could become a good plot if it can be explained well.
I still like this one, I still can enjoy everything, especially the actions. And, also the twits. But, I really hope in the next book it is become more better.