Good thing she has found a ally in street kid with a lot of street smarts and a gingerbread man she might have magicked just a little more than she was supposed to, to help her out. There is also a lunatic out on the prowl looking for people with any magic and killing them. Now she is a suspect of sorts, or has definitely ended up on someone’s radar. That all changes the day she opens the store to find a dead body in the middle of it.
She magics the cookies to dance and has a great routine going. Mona has spent most of her time working in her aunt’s bakery and making fantastic baked goods. She accidentally made a sourdough starter familiar when she was terrified and now it is sorta alive, burbles at her when she comes to feed it or grab some material off it to make bread and she has named it Bob. This is told in first person from Mona’s perspective so we get to be in her head.
She has a great way with a turn of phrase and situational comedy and makes it all very funny for me. Kingfisher’s humor is really my kind of humor.
There is a lot of it mixed in with the story and T. The first thing I really liked about this book was the humor. It is a standalone book about a 14-year old girl with a magical talent when it comes to bread who is caught up in a scheme to take over the city and will need to protect it and the Duchess. A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking is no exception. Kingfisher is one of my new favorite author finds this year and so far it doesn’t matter if it is Young Adult, Middle-Grade (like this book is) or a PG-13 Fantasy book all of them have been fantastic so far. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona’s worries… An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona’s city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. She has a comfortable life in her aunt’s bakery making gingerbread men dance.īut Mona’s life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She can’t control lightning or speak to water. Published by Tantor Audio on October 12, 2021Īmazon, Audible, Audiobook, Barnes & Noble, Appleįourteen-year-old Mona isn’t like the wizards charged with defending the city. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Ī Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher
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