In early September, I decided to buy a one-off Tea & Book box from Quaintly & Co., because Instagram marketing totally works on me. I’ve never subscribed to a book or tea box before because shipping tends to be really expensive, but £4.99 for shipping sounded okay if it was just once so I used my birthday later in the month as an excuse to get it.

As I should have predicted, the box came while I was in Malaysia, so I only got around it to now. I’m still not sure if I’ll get a subscription, but I thought I’d share what I got for £16.99 in case anyone has been looking at their boxes.

Quaintly Book & Tea Box Contents & Reviews

In total, I received 12 teabags (4 individual teabag sachets and 2 sachets with 4 teabags in each), 4 cookies, and a book.

The snacks were not bad, the toffee and butterscotch cookie was huge and went well with the Yorkshire blend. The caramelised biscuit is basically a version of the lotus biscuit, and while I’m not a ginger biscuit person, it was okay.

As for the teas, they were all from Jenier, which I think is a new brand for me. I liked the Yorkshire blend the best – it was a nice black tea that went well with milk and sugar and my family really liked it. The peppermint tea was normal, nothing much to shout about, and I’m not a fan of the Kaika Cherry Sencha. But to be fair, cherry-flavoured teas aren’t a favourite of mine – they have an artificiality to them that I can’t get over, no matter the brand (the only one I kinda liked was Lupicia’s Sakura & Berry tea, because the sakura tea was not very strong).

The only tea I haven’t tried was the sencha, so I’ll update this post when I’ve tried it.

The book I received is The Blessed Child by Rosie Goodwin, and here’s the blurb:

Wednesday’s child is full of woe . . .

Warwickshire, 1865.

Nessie Carson will do anything to keep her family together after her mother is killed, her father abandons them and they are evicted from their cosy little Nuneaton home. She and her brothers and sisters take on jobs as live-in assistants to a local undertaker. She is soon entwined in fortunes of her employer, Andre, who is forced to live a lie, and the local doctor – someone she’s attracted to but can never have. But even in the darkest of times, and saddest of places, when you’re as spirited as Nessie Carson, there is light, love and the promise of happiness if you’re only brave enough to search for it . . .

Blurb from Goodreads

I like historical fiction, so this sounds interesting. I look forward to reading it!

Overall Thoughts

When I first opened the box, I thought that I bought it for £12.99 and that it was pretty reasonable for the price. Now that I’ve checked and realised I paid £21.99 for everything, I don’t really think it’s worth it. I think I’ll like the book and I liked the snacks well enough, but the teas aren’t really worth it for me.

Would I get this again? Probably not, but I am definitely opening to trying different boxes – once I’ve finished going through all the unread books that are guilt-tripping me and made a significant dent in the tea stash (so…. second quarter of 2021, probably).