A Tempest of Tea wasn't fully what I was expecting it to be, but that was my fault for not reading the blurb before k started to read it. I hadn't expected the book to be very vampire based, but enjoyed it anyways. I felt that the vampire lore mixed into the government and worldbuilding though was confusing. I understand that the tea shop was always under scrutiny because it couldn't be proved that it was for vampires, even if it was common street knowledge, and yet there was a whole ass vampire den in the city that was allowed to run. I think that The characters were all fleshed out well, and I enjoyed the dynamics and twists within it. The main complain is that it felt too much like it was trying to recreate a six of crows story rather than be originally it's own, but that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it. I liked the heists and the overall plot of the book, only which that it picked up the pace earlier in the book instead of reading around a 100 pages of mostly exposition and worldbuilding.