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A review by amelianotthepilot
A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal
slow-paced
1.0
I had high hopes for this one since it seemed like six of crows vibes with tea and diversity and all around looked good. I was seeing everyone and their mother reading this book and god I don’t get the hype.
This was not it. I was so extremely disappointed. The heist wasn’t exciting at all, the plot made no sense and I don’t know why the characters wanted to do what they did, I felt no connection to the characters and overall I felt like the characters should’ve been gayer, also their was absolutely 0 chemistry between characters.
The dialogue drove me nuts! Each chapter was from different POVs (alla six of crows) however the characters voices all sound the same and the 3rd person narrator often changed perspectives too going from limited 3rd person (on one characters shoulder) to a different characters limited 3rd person. It was very confusing to read. Also all the dialogue was very quippy with lots of flirty banter but I didn’t believe any of the characters had the chemistry for that since it never built over time and every character talked the same way to everyone they interacted with. There was also dialogue problems where a character would say something which was followed by a page of setting description and then a different character would finally respond but i’d forget what they were talking about by then and have to flip back to understand what was going on.
Not only was the dialogue rough but each chapter jump cuts to a brand new situation with no context to how or why they’re there. My favorite bit of this was the kitten a character randomly has that basically appears in one chapter with no explanation and then is randomly added into scenes with one sentence, just when you forgot the cat exists it falls out of his pocket or something mid fight for no apparent reason.
The barrage of happenings in the last few chapters made me want to throw the book across the room.
Ugh I’m so disappointed this book could’ve been so cool but I’m overall big disappointed.
(There’s also 0 spice the characters just lick each others necks, swipe their fingers across lower lips, and get turned on by being near eachother…so idk what those reviews are on about)
This was not it. I was so extremely disappointed. The heist wasn’t exciting at all, the plot made no sense and I don’t know why the characters wanted to do what they did, I felt no connection to the characters and overall I felt like the characters should’ve been gayer, also their was absolutely 0 chemistry between characters.
The dialogue drove me nuts! Each chapter was from different POVs (alla six of crows) however the characters voices all sound the same and the 3rd person narrator often changed perspectives too going from limited 3rd person (on one characters shoulder) to a different characters limited 3rd person. It was very confusing to read. Also all the dialogue was very quippy with lots of flirty banter but I didn’t believe any of the characters had the chemistry for that since it never built over time and every character talked the same way to everyone they interacted with. There was also dialogue problems where a character would say something which was followed by a page of setting description and then a different character would finally respond but i’d forget what they were talking about by then and have to flip back to understand what was going on.
Not only was the dialogue rough but each chapter jump cuts to a brand new situation with no context to how or why they’re there. My favorite bit of this was the kitten a character randomly has that basically appears in one chapter with no explanation and then is randomly added into scenes with one sentence, just when you forgot the cat exists it falls out of his pocket or something mid fight for no apparent reason.
The barrage of happenings in the last few chapters made me want to throw the book across the room.
Ugh I’m so disappointed this book could’ve been so cool but I’m overall big disappointed.
(There’s also 0 spice the characters just lick each others necks, swipe their fingers across lower lips, and get turned on by being near eachother…so idk what those reviews are on about)