Winner · Locus Awards 2021
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
2020 novel by Ursula Vernon
Fourteen year old Mona is a baker but she is also a not-very-powerful wizard - her medium of choice is dough. She can make pastries dance and bread light and fluffy - nothing extreme or dangerous. But when someone starts killing off all the wizards her minor wizard status doesn't matter and she has to run or be killed. But the people killing off the wizards have to be stopped and Mona doesn't let her lowly abilities stop her - a wizard's got to do what a wizard's got to do.
Such a clever, funny, amazing story.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Genre
- fantasy
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN
- 9789402325522
- Subjects
- Fantasy fiction, speculative fiction, bakery, wizards, magic, gingerbread, cooking, familiars
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