A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking

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Story gets told, ideas get presented, world gets saved, and just keep the sourdough starter firmly in place or it'll get weird ideas. If you give them a medal, then you don’t ever have to ask why the terrible thing happened in the first place.

Nag’s been dead longer than I’ve been alive, and he’s mostly bones now, so she pads him with rags and straw and old flour sacks. And no, until I read this book, I did not have much of an idea of what exactly a sourdough starter is. Mona’s wry and often disgusted commentary on what’s happening around her and just how far the situation has been left to go awry reads like both Sixteen Ways and the Discworld.Well…a big formal wedding is about the same (and because we do cakes, I’ve been on the periphery of a few), except that if things go wrong in a siege you’ll all die horribly, and in formal weddings, the stakes are much higher. There's a powerful assassin that's killing wizards and the magical community is leaving the city or going into hiding. And although this is considered minor magic, she still gets accused of the murder solely because she is a wizard. Just as interesting as her allies what with their reanimated horse corpses and stuff (those minor magic folk certainly had highly unusual talents). And that's how we got this amazing self-published book, one of the most unique books I've ever read.

Her voice, and the way it guided us through this surprisingly complex plot and world, was what really stuck the landing for me in this book.This little book about a girl who can only use baking magic who has to solve a murder mystery and save her city turned out be as awesome as its title. The situation shouldn’t have been allowed to get so far off the rails that a 14-year-old is not just their best but their only hope.

But the city government and constables are turning against wizards, even minor ones like Mona, and the assassin seems to have a nose for tracking down and killing anyone with magical powers. stars, almost 5, and I can very much recommend it, especially as a winter holiday read: there's lots of yummy baking going on and despite of its dark themes, it always manages to maintain a warm and lighthearted tone. But that is just the start of her troubles because there is a killer in the city and this assassin seems to be targeting magicas - minor ones like Mona. And that one Ginger Bread Cookie has more personality than most authors give to their main characters. if things go wrong in a siege you’ll all die horribly, and in formal weddings the stakes are much higher.And happens to think that dying with mismatched socks on is not very cool at all (which I am sure is something we can all wholeheartedly agree on), for three. die and those adults who should be in charge are fallible, this is still ultimately an uplifting and empowering tale. It’s a humble but comfortable existence working at her Aunt Tabitha’s bakery, and Mona is happy enough just to be able to help out.

Not to mention it’s a much more vegan-friendly option than using the poor babies as paella ornaments. It felt like Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City because to a certain extent Mona and Orhan are in the same position. The story is abominably fluffy at times, but it is quite marvellously darkly dark for the most part.Mona has a loving and respectful relationship with the aunt who taught her to bake, and later in the novel, a female ruler is portrayed as flawed but still competent. But another trend that has happened is that YA has progressively gotten darker and gotten closer and closer to adult, leaving a gap between the light middle grade and the pretty damn dark YA. I'd likely have been more impressed if I hadn't read Minor Mage first, but if you liked that, this is a similar concept and I think often funnier. Let us pretend that we have done all that and that I have nodded correctly and made the proper noises, and skip to the point where you say, “I don’t know what I can do, but I’ll try.