A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

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The supporting characters have fantastic depth and personality which really blends well to create this fabulous story. There are other wizards in the city of Riverbraid but they are similar to Mona with specific abilities or not that powerful at all.

Think of all the scenes in Shrek that involve gingerbread people and you have a glimpse into this absurdly entertaining, totally charming novel. Story gets told, ideas get presented, world gets saved, and just keep the sourdough starter firmly in place or it'll get weird ideas.It’s not an easy life, but Mona loves being an apprentice baker … and there’s the fact that her magical powers only work with bread products. I had so much fun reading this book, especially because the plot started out as one thing (a murder mystery with magic) and then grew and grew and ended up being rather epic. A] knack for creating colorful, instantly memorable characters, and inhuman creatures capable of inspiring awe and wonder.

I really enjoyed the worldbuilding touches of how different magic worked and different wizards, and would have loved to spend time with more of the city's wizards (before spoilery things happen). A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking won the Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction for Best Young Adult Novel of 2020, [1] the 2021 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, [2] the 2021 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book, [3] the 2021 Dragon Award for Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel, [4] and the 2021 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature. And he is the least thing our fourteen year old magician dreams up when asked to defend her whole town from flesh eating savages. I loved every moment of this book - it was perfect for a cold winter's weekend snuggled up on the sofa!Disfruté mucho y lo recomiendo, una historia bonita y original y con muchos mensajes para compartir.

It’s fun to see Mona bringing a rather stale gingerbread man to life, but to have the gingerbread man unexpectedly develop its own personality is, well, icing on the cake.First a bit of a murder investigation that rolls into a serial killer on the loose and Mina having to hide with the ramping up of wizardly persecution and registration, and then it swings into an attempted coup followed by in-depth preparation for a siege followed by the siege itself. But I also loved how she realized and discussed with herself that this should have been completely handled by the adults.

Disclaimer: I don’t bake (unless burning something to a crisp can be considered baking), and apparently neither does T. I also liked the depth of the supporting characters – as well as Mona’s anger at the adults’ inability to sort things out, so that it’s down to her. The story is about a murder mystery, there are dark echoes of totalitarianism and ethnic cleansing (all wizards either have to leave town or are murdered), and finally there's an army threatening the city while its usual defenders are away.

She has a comfortable life in her aunt's bakery making gingerbread men dance and biscuits go fluffy. and every time biscuits were mentioned I was imagining British biscuits - however I think they're the softer more scone-like US-style biscuits (they're eaten with honey in one scene) which threw me off somewhat. He was steadying himself with a hank of hair in one hand, and with the other he reached up and caught the tears I hadn’t known I was crying.