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. Bob the sourdough starter is hilarious and steals every scene (and that ranks right up there with things I never thought I'd say about a book, along with spiders are cool).

Patricia Santomasso has an extensive catalog of audiobooks under her belt and it can be heard in her presentation of this story. Determined to save her city and also just wanting to go back to normal so she can be an apprentice baker in her aunt’s bakery again. No, we really don't do enough societally to recognize the real quiet heroism demonstrated daily in ordinary (unglamourous) people fighting against incredible odds.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. I feel guilty but I craved bread and gingerbread throughout this even though eating them would have felt tantamount to murder. A great atmosphere, hilarious worldbuilding, snappy dialogues and vivacious characters all mix together to create a delicious adventure with colourful magic as icing on top.

Sometimes you have to rise up to a challenge when those in charge have failed in their responsibilities, and hope that you are not alone. And although this is considered minor magic, she still gets accused of the murder solely because she is a wizard. Because even if she CAN manage to get better adults it’s not going to happen in time to save the city. Kingfisher’s fantasies are reminiscent of Robin McKinley’s work, with whimsical details and amusing parenthetical remarks.The other downside (it’s all downsides) of Ursula Vernon being not as famous as she ought is that my library never gets any of her books — infuriating! Fue un libro adorable de leer, me gusta como puede estar dirigiendo a un público de 10-14 años y aún así tener escenas de acción increíble, muerte y guerra.