A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

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eBook, 306 pages

English language

Published July 21, 2020

ISBN:
978-1-393-51910-2
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5 stars (2 reviews)

Fourteen year old Mona is a baker but she is also a not-very-powerful wizard - her medium of choice is dough. She can make pastries dance and bread light and fluffy - nothing extreme or dangerous. But when someone starts killing off all the wizards her minor wizard status doesn't matter and she has to run or be killed. But the people killing off the wizards have to be stopped and Mona doesn't let her lowly abilities stop her - a wizard's got to do what a wizard's got to do.

Such a clever, funny, amazing story.

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

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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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Subjects

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