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hdoomk 's review for:
A Tempest of Tea
by Hafsah Faizal
dark
what… almost a dnf… the pacing seems so off as well as the writing style, i thought it was translated at first, important details were “explained” in a single sentence. wth is up with calibore??? romance is pure lust, but no spice, but pretty steamy scenes towards the end.
And speaking of the end… what was that. no spoiler but major cliff hanger.
laith’s whole backstory made absolutely no sense and seemed irrelevant…
also what was with the double/triple crossing between arthie and laith? made no sense to me and it seemed like a cop out
also arthie is a vampire??? the whole book leading up to the reveal didn’t even give hints of arthie being a vampire aside from the coconut water which wasn’t even explained till the very end AFTER you knew arthie was a vampire. and im not just salty about not guessing, it just seemed like an easy gotcha moment that was just theown in there to spice things up…
So now that jin is a vampire, are they gonna turn flick into one to so they can live “happily ever after”??? i feel like the solution is not to turn everyone they love who dies into a vampire because they even criticized a family earlier in the book for doing that exact same thing…
if you have read my rant this far, thank you for your time :D
pretty feminist as well, “girlboss” main character who wears suits!! oh wow, not those awful restricting dresses, the horror!
if you aren’t familiar with books about vampires, as i was not, this was is pretty gruesome and vile in the depictions of drinking blood, and the almost glorification of it imo. so do with that what you will…
no hate to the author or anything, just really not the book for me :)
And speaking of the end… what was that. no spoiler but major cliff hanger.
also arthie is a vampire??? the whole book leading up to the reveal didn’t even give hints of arthie being a vampire aside from the coconut water which wasn’t even explained till the very end AFTER you knew arthie was a vampire. and im not just salty about not guessing, it just seemed like an easy gotcha moment that was just theown in there to spice things up…
So now that jin is a vampire, are they gonna turn flick into one to so they can live “happily ever after”??? i feel like the solution is not to turn everyone they love who dies into a vampire because they even criticized a family earlier in the book for doing that exact same thing…
if you have read my rant this far, thank you for your time :D
pretty feminist as well, “girlboss” main character who wears suits!! oh wow, not those awful restricting dresses, the horror!
if you aren’t familiar with books about vampires, as i was not, this was is pretty gruesome and vile in the depictions of drinking blood, and the almost glorification of it imo. so do with that what you will…
no hate to the author or anything, just really not the book for me :)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury