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Teacup Magic by Tansy Rayner Roberts
Feb. 2nd, 2026 07:08 pmTeacup Magic
3/5. Collection of three gaslamp romantic fantasy novellas (link goes to the first, I couldn’t find the exact collection in print that I got on audio) about a clever young woman who is determined to marry for love and who ends up in various magical problem-solving adventures with a handsome and mysterious spellcracker.
Frothy and fun, and they take themselves exactly as seriously as they ought. These are set on an archipelago of islands one of which is named, wait for it, Town. So you would go to Town for the season. So I liked these, but as always I struggled a bit with this regency-but-also-queer-norm world. Misogyny definitely exists in these stories, but they otherwise skip merrily past all the messy questions of property and inheritance and patriarchy that a queer norm world presents. Not the point, yes, but I always ask the wrong questions of these kinds of settings.
I will keep reading these if I can (a lot of her work apparently doesn’t get audio rights in the U.S.).
3/5. Collection of three gaslamp romantic fantasy novellas (link goes to the first, I couldn’t find the exact collection in print that I got on audio) about a clever young woman who is determined to marry for love and who ends up in various magical problem-solving adventures with a handsome and mysterious spellcracker.
Frothy and fun, and they take themselves exactly as seriously as they ought. These are set on an archipelago of islands one of which is named, wait for it, Town. So you would go to Town for the season. So I liked these, but as always I struggled a bit with this regency-but-also-queer-norm world. Misogyny definitely exists in these stories, but they otherwise skip merrily past all the messy questions of property and inheritance and patriarchy that a queer norm world presents. Not the point, yes, but I always ask the wrong questions of these kinds of settings.
I will keep reading these if I can (a lot of her work apparently doesn’t get audio rights in the U.S.).