Had Kingfisher been content to keep it a smaller story like in Minor Mage, it would have worked better for me. The second challenge-perhaps like much in baking-was one of scale. I might have liked her better if I was ten. But not my favorite kind of lead character. And I kind of applaud Kingfisher for trying to tell a story about someone who doesn't want to be a hero, and who doesn't get powered-up and stomp all over the story. Her emotional breakdowns are in line with this persona, as are her worries. She's a young, rule-follower, trusting sort of young person, and that's fine. While that is entirely alright, the mileage one gets out of this may vary. While she does grow into her magic, I would hesitate to say she grows significantly into her personhood power. There were two problems here, both of which will vary tremendously depending on the reader. I’m pretty sure that’s a scientific fact."
It is nearly impossible to be sad when eating a blueberry muffin.
"You’re making their lives better, just a little tiny bit. Locus commended Vernon's "ability to craft engagingly quirky characters", and her portrayal of "a Pratchettian world where magic makes for a mostly amusing background, except when it doesn't.Really, how can any baker resist a title like that, along with the lure of an enthusiastic but somewhat unreliable sourdough starter named Bob? But what at first seems to be a murder mystery when a young baker named Mona finds a body in the bakery morphs fairly quickly into a coming-of-age story, in the setting of a politically unstable landscape. James Nicoll called it "an entertaining YA diversion that will encourage younger readers to consider just how easily they might be scapegoated by an ambitious politician," and emphasized that he would "enjoy" reading a sequel.
When teenage bread wizard Mona discovers a corpse in her family's bakery, it triggers a chain of events that leads to her managing the city's defense against military assault, with the aid of animate gingerbread men and her familiar - a sourdough starter.Ī Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking won the Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction for Best Young Adult Novel of 2020, the 2021 Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, the 2021 Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book, the 2021 Dragon Award for Best Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel, and the 2021 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature. It was first published by Argyll Productions. A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking is a 2020 young adult fantasy novel by Ursula Vernon, under her pseudonym T.
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