A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

Paperback, 320 pages

English language

Published July 20, 2020 by Argyll Productions.

ISBN:
978-1-61450-524-2
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5 stars (2 reviews)

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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5 stars

This is really two stories in an interesting comic fantasy world built by the author. I really like the idea of dough magic, water magic, and the like.

The main character is fairly passive, pushed into action when needed. Of course, that is sort of like the Duchess in the story also. My favorite character was probably Bob - he definitely knows what he wants, and that's more Bob!

This book won a few awards for young adult books, and it is definitely that. The first part was the better story; I thought the second section was fairly quick and slightly out of control.

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