T. Kingfisher’s A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
I’ve read this book several times (rereading it for book club this go-around) and it's excellent every time! I don’t know how the author manages to always mix magic and whimsy and humor with sadness and the occasional gross/morbid, but she does and it WORKS. If you haven’t read this, it’s the story of a fourteen year old girl who works at a bakery and has bakery magic (she can get dough to not burn and make gingerbread men dance), but when a dead body turns up in the bakery, she’s drawn into a world of political plots, assassins, and war. But with a gingerbread man sidekick and an angry sourdough starter, of course. I am curious to see how book club will react to this, but I personally love it every time.
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