Publisher: Berkley
Publication date: August 4th 2020
Pages: 304
Vanessa Yu comes from a Chinese family of fortune tellers. In the bottom of a teacup, she can read tea leaves and predict people's fortunes, be it a good one or bad. Too many times though she isn't able to keep her mouth shut at moment when she had a very big push from the cosmos to tell peoples fortunes at unfortunate moments, like in the middle of a wedding party, when she just saw that the groom would be leaving the bride in a painful divorce soon. Her own love live though is nonexistent, as she consulted a matchmaker in Shanghai who tells her she has no red line in her hands, there is just no one to match her.
And then her eccentric aunt Evelyn invites her to come with her to Paris.While working at Evelyn’s tea stall at a Parisian antique market, she meets her own love interest Marc, and finds out about an old flame of her aunt that pops up again in the time they are in Paris.
I loved Roselle Lim's previous book Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune so I was quite excited there was a new book written by her coming out. The book topped my expectations I had of it. The story is very different then any other book, mixing the Chinese and Parisian culture in a perfect (tea) blend! Vanessa just knows she has a talent for fortune telling, she only has to learn how to use and when not to use it, and even more she has to find out where her own future lies. She meets a handsome French Asian guy named Marc while they are both sketching outside on a Parisian square, and before they know it they have their first date. Not knowing that his father is an old flame of her aunt Evelyn and that aunt Evelyn predicted this in her fortune tea reading. But that old flame, Girard, was heartbroken a decade ago when aunt Evelyn left to live in San Francisco, and now his old anger about that results in making bad press about Evelyn's tea shop, stating to tourist tours that her tea shop is just a facade for Chinese triades. But in the end, things start to look a little bit better for Vanessa and Evelyn, and I loved how the author wrapped up the story.
So overall, this is a very nice new and also fun story full of nice twists, turns and fortune telling teas that I definately recommend reading!!
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