A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

by

eBook, 320 pages

English language

Published July 21, 2020 by Red Wombat Studio.

ASIN:
B08CJ86Y1W
No rating (1 review)

Fourteen-year-old Mona isn’t like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can’t control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt’s bakery making gingerbread men dance.

But Mona’s life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona’s city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona’s worries…

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reviewed A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

Fun adventure for young readers

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This was a quick and fun story that I think would appeal to young readers. The plot was straightforward and clearly explained: a bit too clearly for my tastes, with heavy-handed social commentary, but then I’m certainly not young! I liked that Mona had a good relationship with her aunt and uncle. She did came across as younger than her stated 14, especially in the medieval-ish setting. She struck me more as an observer and pushed around by circumstances (and other people’s actions/decisions) than having her own agency, which added to the “young” feel. The gingerbread man was fun.

Subjects

  • Fantasy fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • bakery
  • wizards
  • magic
  • gingerbread
  • cooking
  • familiars
  • sour dough starter
  • Fiction, fantasy, general
  • Fiction, action & adventure

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