Rating: ★★★.5
Audience: YA Fantasy
Length: 352 pages
Author: Hafsah Faizal
Publisher: First Ink
Release Date: September 25th, 2025
Image & Other Reviews on: Goodreads

BOOK SUMMARY:

The epic conclusion to the #1 bestselling A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal; the gritty fantasy duology about an orphan girl and her crew who get tangled in a heist with vampires, perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows.

She’s had her tea, now she’s out for blood.

White Roaring is sharpening its fangs after the deadly night that left the city in shambles. The press are dead, the public calls for justice, vampires are in danger, and amid the turmoil, the Ram announces a celebration.

Still reeling from the bloodshed, Arthie Casimir has no time to mourn the death of anyone, let alone her own. She has no time for love, either, but it had saved her life. As Arthie navigates new emotions and new allies, she must reassemble her scrambled crew and scrape what little they have left to fight one last time – and she will need to face the ghosts of her past to do it.

In Ceylan.

After the jaw-dropping ending of #1 bestselling A Tempest of Tea, Arthie and her crew still have plenty of hearts to break and crimson-red secrets to uncover. Hafsah Faizal crafts a deliciously twisty and seductive sequel that will leave readers breathless until the very last page.

Thank you to MacMillan Audio for the gifted audiobook.

WELL.

I’ll make a note first about the audiobook. While I thought the narrator read the book perfectly fine I think it’s frustrating when a book has 3+ POV’s and only ONE narrator. It made it difficult to switch to each POV in my mind and things started to run together and I got confused multiple times on who was who. I’d still recommend this but I would say go the eyeball read route.

But also maybe it wasn’t all the audiobook? I do think some of the ending pieces were a flop (ANGER INDUCING FLOP). I guess the plot wrapped up well after that? I DID like the vampire aspects. I’m not really a vampire girlie but this didn’t bug me at all. There were some good found family moments and the heist was fine I suppose.

Overall audience notes:

• YA Fantasy
• Language: mild
• Romance: closed door
• Violence: moderate

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