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A Coup of Tea

Tea Princess Chronicles, Book 1

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A Coup of Tea

By: Casey Blair
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
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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.

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I really enjoyed this book which was beautifully written and portrayed friendship and politics. Great characters and storyline.

Lovely Story

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A generous 3.5 out of 5 if I'm honest but there wasn't anything much BAD about it, it was just a little insipid for my taste. Nothing much happened, and I found it hard to concentrate after a while - because I didnt really care what happened. That's a bad sign. I've also recently come back from Japan (and am off to China soon) so the tea ceremonies weren't lost on me, and I thought that would make it a good read. Unfortunately it was just a bit meh, so I actually DNF at around 70% of the way through.

Just a bit insipid

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I LOVED every topic in this book, because I'm a real life witch so of course it would appeal to me and that's why I carried on listening. However if I'm being honest there were things I just didn't understand , tea ceremony? what's that lol. and I never really understood what Istalam was, I mean I know it's where it was set, but I didn't grasp the concept of the place. there is a species called Gilanni, and its not really that well described as to what they look like or who they are as a people. I also don't understand why on earth they call a tea pot a tea pet (I know that's not how you spell it). I think including different voice actors would have added depth to this narrative. overall, very good. unmistakably magickal, but a little confusing. I think the writter may have made it a bit too confusing and added things in the story that didn't really need to be there, a dangerous walk up the spiral stairs with the dragons, why? I'm not being mean but I have to be honest. its still beautiful and I loved it, so I'm giving it a 3.5 out of 5

beautiful narration

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The reading is very good and the story is interesting but the lore is a bit hard to understand at first and the narrative drives into politics a bit too complicated

A different story

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This was a fun listen , cosy and good narration. I just wasn’t obsessed with it. I found at some points I didn’t really know what was going on. But it is a fairly low stakes story so it didn’t matter soo much that I hadn’t fully understood the world.
The tea concept was fun and my favourite part

Cosy listen

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