The Tea Dragon Tapestry by Kay O'Neill
My Rating: ★★★★★
After caring for Ginseng for a year, Greta hasn’t been able to find a way to help ease their grief. Feeling like a failure, she looks within to find a way to let Ginseng know that she’s there whenever they’re ready as she prepares to create something amazing to impress a blacksmith interested in taking her on as their apprentice. Meanwhile, Minette is haunted by dreams that make her realize that she’s mourning the person she used to be. The more confused she is, the more she realizes that she’s proud about her current journey and that her past isn’t a waste. Together, Greta and Minette prepare to plant roots and grow into their paths with old and new friends.
I love the artwork, stories, and care put into each and every aspect of the series, so I was both happy and sad to pick up the final installment. This time around, we are back to following Greta and Minette from the first book. Greta has really come into her own and is focused on blacksmithing, caring for Ginseng, and spending times with friends and family. I love that she’s getting the chance to possibly become the apprentice of a well-known blacksmith. Through her work, he’s learning to love his craft in new ways numb for a long time. It was here that I realized this installment is about healing, learning to lean on the people around you when needed, and finding new and old things that make you happy.
At the end, we get an article on tea dragons. It gives me a little hope that, should Kay O'Neill decide to continue this series through prequels or spin-offs, there’s a lot she could do that involves tea dragons or other types of dragons. There was so much love put into these three books that I’m also okay if this is where it ends. Either way, I’m looking forward to seeing what Kay comes up with next because they have such a powerful way with words and artwork.
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