Review of A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking

I finished reading A Wizard’s Guide To Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher.📚

Mona is not a powerful mage like all the wizards working in the army to defend the city. She cannot change the weather or start a fire. But what our main character can do is bake fantastic bread and animated gingerbread men. But when she finds the body of a young girl in the bakery, her whole life is turned upside down.

I love the writing style of this book, it is undoubtedly a book targeted for a younger audience, but I still enjoyed reading it. I especially liked the humor in the book and Mona’s questions that she, as a child, should not be responsible for being the hero and fixing the adults’ errors. The book certainly has a message in this way, and I think it is also a bit self-critical of the genre. Where so often a young hero needs to save the day.

I liked the magic system used in this world. It is not so built out, but it works nicely, and it shows that also with magic, you need to have knowledge and research to be powerful. And I never want to cross path with Bob the sourdough starter. And I imagine how that land would drive if they had a magic academy to teach and research magic.

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• /hero-safe-the-day
• /dark
• /critical-of-authority