Peasreads: Tea Princess Chronicles

 Tea Princess Chronicles Series

Tea Princess Chronicles is a complete cozy fantasy trilogy full of magic tea, friendship, and saving the world.
Follow the adventures of Miyara, a princess who escapes her meaningless life and goes into hiding, as she finds her place in the world serving a struggling community by running a tea shop that sits on the edge of a magical disaster.

A Coup of Tea (Tea Princess Chronicles #1)

3.25 stars. Unique story. Flowed well. Interesting characters. Good YA read, because it was interesting. The world was cool. It was entertaining.  
Miyara was a little too "perfect"; it was a little unbelievable. We're supposed to believe that someone who has never done something achieves the highest tier there is in that profession in less than weeks, while others study for a lifetime? 

Description:
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.

Tea Set and Match (Tea Princess Chronicles #2)

3 stars. Not as good as the first book. Almost got tired of FMC. 

Description:

Miyara saved the city of Sayorsen and the dragons. She was happy with the place she'd made for herself.

But every action triggers consequences.

Her older sister comes to drag her back to the palace and the meaningless life she hated. The tea guild won't support her unless she succeeds on her own in their chosen challenge: a tea tournament, and the international politics and unrest that come along with it. And to top it all off, the border protecting the remaining world from the magical disaster zone is suddenly failing.

The path she'd thought was clear is twistier than ever, but armed with her trusty tea set Miyara will fight to keep it.

Royal Tea Service (Tea Princess Chronicles #3)

2 stars. This book probably had a more interesting plot and storyline than the second book. It just wasn't executed in a way that was enjoyable or made sense.  After a while, it just got so monotonous. 

I really had to push through because I liked certain characters and wanted to see how their stories played out. But are we really supposed to believe that a sheltered, not raised in healthy relationships, very young adult princess leaves that world behind and is all of a sudden a Tea Master (something that takes years and years of practice), in a perfect relationship with someone she met mere weeks ago and moved in with,  and she's somehow the person who solves all these problems for a whole nation? In weeks time? With no real-world experience other than that she just seems to know it all? Despite her relations and friends who have so much more experience and wisdom in some areas, they seemed to be dumbed down just so she could be the hero. The inner monologues got to be so much. I should have stopped at the first book. Miyara got so insufferable as each book and chapter passed. I am not a person who judges a book by how likeable the main character is. It isn't just that she was a know-it-all; the story just dragged on and on. There doesn't need to be this many pages. I should have DNF'd

Description:

Miyara has saved the day, again.

And once again, the world has come calling.

Everyone wants a piece of the magical disaster zone for their own agendas, and some will stop at nothing to destroy the border and bring catastrophe down on the world. It's up to Miyara to host a summit bringing all the players to one place so she can find out what's going on and forge the connections necessary to stop it before it's too late for everyone.

Failure means the end of the world. Miyara has no choice but to prove once and for all that her path in serving people with tea is powerful enough to matter.

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