A Tempest of Tea

How it reads

A Tempest of Tea is fantasy (fantasy heist, specifically), and its dominant mood is adventurous. It's driven by momentum, discovery and getting into trouble. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in an invented world, in no single period, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are friendship, power and politics and secrets. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It opens a series. It ends on a cliffhanger, so have the next book ready. At 338 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.