Wednesday, 28 May 2025

A wizard´s guide to defensive baking by T. Kingfisher


Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso


Release date: 10-12-21


Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins


Publisher: Tantor Audio


YA /from audible




This was a cute fantasy. I tried it in audio, thanks to audible.




Mona works for her aunt, baking. She has some magic and can make gingerbread men dance, and she made this angry sourdough start that she named Bob.




Then she finds a dead body, someone is killing mages, and something is wrong in the city.




Quite the little adventure as she tries to save the day. Even the smallest baker can make a difference.




Just sweet and good you know. Also great narration





Fourteen-year-old Mona isn’t like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can’t control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt’s bakery making gingerbread men dance.




But Mona’s life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona’s city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona’s worries…

14 comments:

  1. I want to make Gingerbread men dance too. This sounds good.

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    1. That would be a really fun gift to have

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  2. I listened to this one too! It was so fun and adorable.

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    1. I do like Kingfisher, so many different ones

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  3. The killing of the mages pushed me to add this to my TBR.


    ✿ yani @ litfae

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    1. So many innocent lives and most could just do things like, well make gingerbread dance

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  4. I've enjoyed a few cozy fantasies and this sounds good with the mystery element.

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  5. I really need to buckle down and read more by this author.

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  6. Wait... did Carole read this one?

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