A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

By: T. Kingfisher

Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso

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....

©2020 T. Kingfisher (P)2021 Tantor

Great read

Loved the characters and the story! Great blend of magic and mystery and bravery!

Wonderful

Very interesting I could listen to this one over and over reminds me of the house witch series so good

I loved everything about it

I didn’t realize how little fun I’d been having reading books lately until I read this one. There wasn’t anything about it that I didn’t like. It’s just fun. I’m an adult and I loved it, but I can share it with my 12 year old and she is going to love it too. If you’ve never read a light adventure story about sassy magic gingerbread men saving a kingdom, then you don’t know what you’re missing.

Wonderful

A fantastic YA book about the heroism of everyday people and making the most of the talents you have. Bob the homicidal sourdough starter is now one of my favorite characters. Highly recommended for middle grade through adult.

Entertaining throughout

Loved this interesting story. Held my interest start to finish. Levity, suspense, intrigue. Has all I need

Better than I expected, with one complaint

I really enjoyed this book. It is kind of rare to find a solo fantasy book these days, and I enjoyed this slower paced book. The narrator was excellent and the characters were fun, if simple. I really liked the first person perspective and the many references to baking woven throughout by the narrator (the main character). The magic was interesting and fun. My only complaint is that ending was not as satisfying as I had hoped. The final problem only appeared in the last 2 hours of the book and the "solution" was very much a Deus Ex Machina ending.

spectacular adventure

This was so much fun, and went too quickly. Can't wait for more stories here.

Death by Sourdough

Delightful. T. Kingfisher has done it again. The world building is wonderful but it's the characters that kept me reading. I want to tie on my apron and bake up some naughty gingerbread. Narration only added to the story.

Very cute

Story is very cute! Highly recommend for middle grades and up. Narrator is good too.

Great story

I actually shed a few tears at parts. This was a well written book and the narrator was phenomenal!