After falling in love with the Monk and Robot series (starting with A Psalm for the Wild-Built), and finding others who adore it as much as I did, I dAfter falling in love with the Monk and Robot series (starting with A Psalm for the Wild-Built), and finding others who adore it as much as I did, I discovered that there's a whole genre out there called "cozy sci-fi" that contains low-stakes feel-good sci-fi tales. This book certainly fits the category. It's about an ancient robot that owns a tea shop. You can read it in one sitting, and it's just plain pleasant. Sometimes, you just need to read a book for the pleasure of reading, and this fits the bill. Lovely, lovely, lovely.
Edit: I had to prove I'm not a robot before posting this review....more