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Title: Nice setting, bland characters
Review: I'm a big lover of tea, so I was really looking forward to getting into a mystery series based around a tea shop in a beautiful Southern city. Unfortunately, the tea shop and Charleston are about the best things this author has to offer. The mystery is light (I had the murderer pegged less than halfway through the book), and the characters are dull. The main character, Theodosia, is dull because she's impossibly perfect. She's beautiful, charming, successful, has impeccable taste in everything, and while one or two people don't outright worship her, they seem to always "respect" her or are "intrigued" by her. Even the stray mutt she took in for a pet is charming and spends his weekends as a therapy dog in a nursing home. It's too much. At least give her a rude habit or a bad hair day or something!So, two stars for the tea and the city, but there's not much else to recommend, unfortunately.
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