Coffee, Tea or Me
- 4.2 out of 5
- 1,501 ratings
- 216 pages
Overall Content Rating: Parents Strongly Cautioned PG-13
This contemporary romantic comedy follows competing café and tea-shop owners whose pranks, marketing wars, and slow-burn attraction drive most of the plot. Expect frequent witty arguments, mild swearing, and occasional shoving or fistfight moments that leave minor injuries but are not drawn-out or graphic. Parents looking for a light read should know the book emphasizes humor and romance over explicit content: kissing and innuendo appear, but reviewers treat it as a clean rom-com. Language is the main recurring concern, with exclamations and insults in stress and rivalry scenes; violence is intermittent fisticuffs and childhood bullying memories rather than sustained brutality.
Reviews first uploaded October 11, 2026 3:34 pm. Page updated October 11, 2026 3:34 pm.
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Crude Mild
12Characters call one another foolish or inconsiderate during heated business and traffic disputes and when rival shop owners clash. The tone is argumentative and comic rather than graphically vulgar.
Amazon reviews mentioning crude
Specific words
- idiot: 8
- stupid: 4
Profanity Moderate
40Swearing and mild insults run through comic rivalry, café banter, and a few outdoor confrontations. Stronger words show up in bursts rather than on every page, with exclamations and teasing most common; overall frequency is below three dozen instances for the whole book per reader estimates, though one reviewer describes the story as free of swearing.
Amazon reviews mentioning profanity
Specific words
- hell: 18
- butt: 7
- bastard: 4
- shit: 4
- ass: 3
- damn: 2
- bitch: 1
- bullshit: 1
Violence Moderate
12Conflict stays at the level of scuffles and slapstick rather than graphic harm. Characters trade punches or shoves on a bike path and in costume play, with minor bleeding and bruising mentioned; childhood flashbacks include mean sibling pranks. Reviews note fisticuffs and an impulsive, protective brother who escalates before talking things out.
Amazon reviews mentioning violence
Specific words
- blood: 4
- punch: 4
- kick: 2
- bleed: 1
- smash: 1
Sex Mild
Reviewers consistently describe a clean romantic comedy: flirting, light innuendo, and kissing without explicit or on-page sexual activity. Attraction and physique are sometimes noticed in passing, but sampled text matches for anatomical slang are absent.
About this book
Susie opens a tea shop next to Jack’s coffee shop and the war begins. Jack Robbins has a booming coffee business, an eighty-year old customer who can’t keep his clothes on, and a rescue Chihuahua named Chimichanga that likes to kiss on the mouth. Life is good until the new business next door takes a bite out of his sales. Susie McKenna has the new tea shop everyone is talking about, an over-protective brother, and a stubborn, good-looking neighbor who is trying to steal her customers. Things really start to percolate when Jack and Susie both volunteer to help plan the downtown festival. They have to work together and soon Jack won't be able to get by without his daily fix of Susie. But can a coffee lover and a tea devotee put their competition aside to get their happily ever after? Read more