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...
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(Red Wombat Studio, 21 July 2020, e-book, 320 pages, borrowed from Glasgow Libraries via Overdrive, #POPSUGARReadingChallenge, a book by a self-published author)
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I'm a fan of the author. I expected to enjoy A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking and I wasn't disappointed. This is strange fantasy novel, in a good way. Whoever heard of magical baking and using a sourdough starter to fight? This is a quirky, original read and very entertaining. I'd recommend it.
4/5
