Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

[lightreads]

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea

3/5. Cozy sapphic fantasy about a queen’s guard who runs away with her powerful mage girlfriend to start a tea/book shop (which is immediately successful, that’s how you know it’s fantasy), also dragon stuff.

This is fine. Cozy fantasy is as particular and personal as romance, and my hit rate is correspondingly low. This one is fine and hits the expected beats (small town politics, renovating to open your business, cute companion animals, you know the drill) but did not distinguish itself in any way. Not even the established relationship, which is normally my jam, but these two did nothing for me.

Comments

[teafeather]

The author received enough negative comments/reviews about this being a Sapphic romance that she dedicated the sequel to the haters and said she put twice as many lesbians in the second book just for them.

[lightreads]

Haha, respect. Still not going to read it though.

[teafeather]

It served its purpose as a distraction when I was dealing with my house being flooded with raw sewage due to my landlord's negligence but I don't recommend it in general, especially if you didn't really enjoy the first book.