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The Secret Service of Tea and Treason
3/5. Third in this charming fluffy trilogy of historical fantastical romances. This one switches modes yet again to spies (the previous two did pirates and witches) so like . . . it’s a lot. This was my packing book – I packed pretty much all of my wife’s 2,000 plus books while reading this) and it’s somewhat surprising that I have any thoughts about it at all. But I do, because this book is attempting that thing where 90% of it is silly and campy fun, and then a tiny sliver of the other 10% is like “oh actually, these two people who are falling in love have been horrifically abused since childhood to indoctrinate them into serving their governmental organization for life and we’re going to take that seriously for just this one scene and then go back to making jokes about it.” Woof. That’s a hard trick to pull off, and this book does not land it.
3/5. Third in this charming fluffy trilogy of historical fantastical romances. This one switches modes yet again to spies (the previous two did pirates and witches) so like . . . it’s a lot. This was my packing book – I packed pretty much all of my wife’s 2,000 plus books while reading this) and it’s somewhat surprising that I have any thoughts about it at all. But I do, because this book is attempting that thing where 90% of it is silly and campy fun, and then a tiny sliver of the other 10% is like “oh actually, these two people who are falling in love have been horrifically abused since childhood to indoctrinate them into serving their governmental organization for life and we’re going to take that seriously for just this one scene and then go back to making jokes about it.” Woof. That’s a hard trick to pull off, and this book does not land it.