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A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

T. Kingfisher

Start date: November 6, 2021

Finish date: January 30, 2022

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Aug 10, 2021 Melki rated it it was amazing

Shelves: best-of-2021, humorous-fiction, fantasy

"Walk careful, bread girl. Little people like us, we're not safe these days. Watch your back."

Young Mona has a way with bread. She can keep it from burning, or make it taste fresher (or staler, if need be.) She can even make gingerbread men dance the can-can. 'Cause she's a wizard, you see. A 14-year-old wizard who's about to have her life turned upside-down.

I squeezed my eyes shut - it was going to be a cold bright pain, I just knew it, and then I was going to die, and that would be the end o ...more

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Oct 01, 2022 Fiona Knight rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, absolute-favourites

As wizards go, I'm pretty much the bottom of the barrel. Even Master Elwidge, who's got just enough magic to take knots out of wooden boards, is better than me. Dough and pastries are about all I can do. The great wizards, the magi that serve the Duchess, they can throw fireballs around or rip mountains out of the earth, heal the dying, turn lead into gold.
Me, I can turn flour and yeast into tasty bread, on a good day. And occasionally make carnivorous sourdough starters.

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Nov 15, 2021 Margaret rated it liked it

Shelves: 2nd-world-fantasy, 2021-into-the-forest-challenge, audiobook, young-adult

This is a fun middle grade about a young magical baker who is accused of murder, and then becomes entwined in a plot to kill all magic folk and take over the city. I liked the characters and magic system, but I didn't like the stereotyped way everyone treated a central secondary character, and the plot kept feeling like it had to start and stop again and again. Not my favorite T. Kingfisher, but I'm sure many will like it!

The audiobook was great. I really like the narrator's voice. ...more

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Jun 12, 2024 Ivana added it

Šašavo taman kol'ko treba, zabavno, zanimljiva magija, taman onoliko mračno da klincima bude super-interesantno a da se odrasli isprepadaju za njih. ...more

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