A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking - T. Kingfisher

A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking

By T. Kingfisher

  • Release Date: 2020-07-21
  • Genre: Fantasy
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 201 Ratings)

Description

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...

Reviews

  • You should read this

    4
    By Athaleas
    Death by sourdough starter! Misbehaving gingerbread men! Murder and sass! What more could you need.
  • Delightful

    5
    By HRJones
    I think the only word for this book is “delightful.” In a standard-issue medievaloid fantasy setting, a teenage apprentice baker and wizard finds herself thrust into the unexpected role of saving the city-state from plots and foreign invasion. With the help of an animated gingerbread man and a magical familiar in the form of a sourdough culture named Bob. I mean, what more do you need to know? The protagonist is believably complex and flawed and the baking-based magic (indeed, the general premise of how magic works in the world) is well-realized and woven into the plot and its resolution. I may be biased in my love of this book because the quarantine initiated me into the Sourdough Tribe. But then again, I think it’s just that good.
  • War and wizards and tragedy and triumph

    5
    By Alice Bentley
    A well rounded feast of an adventure, with characters you feel you know, and action that’s a crafted pulse of stress and stillness.
  • Really good.

    5
    By Archangel Beth
    Yeah, maybe some pieces are dark, but heroes don't come out of frivolous peril. It does start with a dead body. If you are old enough to handle the dead body, you're probably okay with the rest. (There are a few sewers as well, and they're appropriately gross for sewers. So, uh, be warned.) Also, there is enough baking that I'm hungry now & eying the box-mix of cookies speculatively.

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