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“You like tea. I like books, Aren’t you glad we opened a shop and forgot the world exists?”

Alchemy and a Cup of Tea (Tomes & Tea Book Four) by Rebecca Thorne

August 24, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

To all the publishing professionals who deal with my terrible sense of humor and impulsive nature-for without their guidance, I would have enthusiastically titled this book F**k It, Let’s Try Coffee– Author’s Dedication All Reyna wanted at the end of Tea You At the Altar was a nice night unwinding with a relaxing cup of tea. Instead, she got kidnapped and dragged off to an abandoned watch tower with a strange alchemy circle hidden under the floorboards. Luckily, Kianthe’s rescue of her goes off without […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: bad puns, dragons, end of a series, griffons, Rebecca Thorne, tea

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:120 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: bad puns, dragons, end of a series, griffons, Rebecca Thorne, tea ·
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Cozy romantasy in which game night is the wildest part

Tea You at the Altar by Rebecca Thorne

August 3, 2025 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 3: TBR I recently saw book four in the tetralogy at an airport bookstore, and realized that I still had book 3 on my TBR shelf (literally, physical book on actual shelf). Tea You at the Altar is book 3 of the Tomes and Tea series, and like the two previous volumes is a cozy romantasy. Kind of fitting actually, since I’m pretty sure I picked up book 1 in an airport as well. This time, the story is less about the tea and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Featured, Romance Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr17bingo, LGBTQ romance, Rebecca Thorne, Romance, romantasy, tea you at the altar, tomes and tea

CoffeeShopReader's CBR17 Review No:36 · Genres: Fantasy, Featured, Romance · Tags: #fantasy, cbr17bingo, LGBTQ romance, Rebecca Thorne, Romance, romantasy, tea you at the altar, tomes and tea ·
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“There’s beauty in the menial. Life is nothing but a series of quiet tasks with people we love. Isn’t it?”

Tea You At the Altar (Tomes & Tea Book Three) by Rebecca Thorne

July 31, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

Somewhere in the world, there is someone who will bake you cookies and buy you swords and fight your dragons. Never give up. This continues to be an enjoyable series; I’m sorry it has only one more book to go. It starts out with Kianthe and Reyna deciding to multitask; if they’re getting married, why not add overthrowing Queen Tiliane, Reyna’s former boss, into the mix? Sure, their baby dragons are hatched and causing chaos in Tawney, Kianthe’s uptight parents who she hasn’t spoken to […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: dragons, Lesbians, overthrowing the monarchy, pirates, Rebecca Thorne, tea

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:98 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: dragons, Lesbians, overthrowing the monarchy, pirates, Rebecca Thorne, tea ·
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“To the people who gave me one-star reviews because the first book “had lesbians.” I doubled the lesbians in this one. Just for you.”

A Pirate’s Life For Tea by Rebecca Thorne

May 1, 2025 by bjornsnipe 1 Comment

You have to love any book where the main plot boils down to “four lesbians, with help from varied cast of characters aggravate obnoxious local politician while navigating their relationships”. Leaving their cozy bookshop/home for any plant Kianthe can reasonably (or not so reasonably) cram into its confines behind on their quest to recover the stolen dragon eggs, Kianthe and Reyna crash the garden party of Diarn Arlon, the powerful lord of the Nacean River. With the firm belief that what he wants he gets, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: cozy fantasy, Lesbians, Rebecca Thorne, romantasy, tea shops

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:37 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: cozy fantasy, Lesbians, Rebecca Thorne, romantasy, tea shops ·
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“Run away with me. You like tea. I like books. Care to open a shop and forget the world exists?”

Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

April 22, 2025 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

Don’t we all want to run away with the person we love to open a bookshop/cafe in a small village somewhere? That’s all Reyna and Kianthe want to do. However, when one’s the guard of a tantrum-prone murderous queen and the other’s the most powerful mage in the land, it’s a bit difficult. After getting kidnapped, Reyna decides that the spoiled little bit of royalty she works for has had enough of her life, and finally takes Kianthe up on her offer to run away […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: Rebecca Thorne

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:31 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: Rebecca Thorne ·
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More Pirates than Tea or Tomes

A Pirate's Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne

November 27, 2024 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Teas and Tomes is officially a series. I saw the sequel to Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea, A Pirate’s Life for Tea at the airport, and it’s a decent light travel/beach/need a mental break read. There’s two plot threads: first, Reyna and Kianthe have to find the dragon eggs they promised to find in the first book, and second (during that investigation) they get involved in local politics by agreeing to capture a river pirate who has been annoying the local diarn Arlon. Naturally, things […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: #fantasy, A Pirates Life for Tea, cozy, LGBTQ romance, Rebecca Thorne, Romance, romantasy, Tea and Tomes

CoffeeShopReader's CBR16 Review No:67 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: #fantasy, A Pirates Life for Tea, cozy, LGBTQ romance, Rebecca Thorne, Romance, romantasy, Tea and Tomes ·
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