March to Other Worlds Day 14 A Wizard???s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

March to Other Worlds Day 14 A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

 

To close out the second week of the March to Other Worlds, I turn to a more traditional fantasy by T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Banking. I suspect this novel was inspired by the baking of the giant gingerbread cookie in one of the Shrek movies. The plot revolves around a city state in which all of the people capable of using magic have been slowly killed off over the past year or so. Enter our heroine, a fourteen-year-old baker who discovers a dead body in her aunt’s bakery when she goes in to start the preparations for the day’s business at 4am. Somewhat to her surprise, the inquisitor immediately suspects her of being the killer because she discovered the body. The reader will immediately suspect that something other than extreme dimwittedness is the cause of this suspicion.

 

Things quickly get worse. Someone tries to kill the young baker and she and a new friend decide to try and figure out what is really going on. This leads, through a quick series of twists and turns, into the young baker becoming the primary defense against an invading army. Never before has a baker been so important to a kingdom’s front line of defense.

 

There’s some nice tension and some very clever ideas in this cute novel. If you’re tired of blood and guts but still want your dose of fantasy, you should give this book a try.

 

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