A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking

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Or real life and any number of groups who can be used to focus attention away from whatever an administration doesn’t want people to look at. If I was going to get thrown in the dungeon, at least I was going to leave a trail of quality pastries behind me. Where Harry Potter comes in, of course, is that Mona is just 14 and she’s expected to save the city.

This gap, in the old days, was filled with stories like Percy Jackson, Alex Rider, even Harry Potter and The Princess Academy, which are stories that were not afraid to be mature at times. I stuck both hands into the soup tureen and tried to convince him that what the world needed was a whole lot more Bob. die and those adults who should be in charge are fallible, this is still ultimately an uplifting and empowering tale. Apparently a girl walking through the Elbow was unusual, but a girl with a madwoman riding a dead horse was perfectly acceptable.It doesn't take long before she learns there is a growing threat that magicas like her are facing in the city-state and while most magical individuals leave (or are killed), Mona soon finds herself in the unenviable position of having to stand-up and fight against the enemy. Running a full time business isn’t easy, especially when you’re only fourteen, but Mona’s good enough at it to make a comfortable life for herself. The tone of the book is the irresistible mix of wry humor and action that I’ve come to expect from Kingfisher, and it also starts on a very dark note with a murdered body being found in the bakery in the book’s first line. Sometimes you have to rise up to a challenge when those in charge have failed in their responsibilities, and hope that you are not alone. Had Kingfisher been content to keep it a smaller story like in Minor Mage, it would have worked better for me.

Kingfisher - aka Úrsula Vernon - desde la perspectiva de una adolescente sensata y mordaz cuyo talento mágico solo funciona con el pan, y que desde que se encuentra a una chica asesinada, se enfrenta a unas intrigas políticas que los adultos no han sabido evitar que amenazan su vida y su ciudad. There are quite a few stand-up-and-cheer moments, plus a few that were laugh out loud hilarious, like Mona and her homeless friend Spindle having to break into the palace through the Duchess’s bathroom, or a batch of evil gingerbread men getting into a fistfight and hurling walnuts at each other in the kitchen.When you’re different, even just a little different, even in a way that people can’t see, you like to know that people in power won’t judge you for it. It’s a pretty young story, with some inconsistencies and contradictions that can annoy an adult reader, but I’m pretty sure would not bother a child in the slightest. Often charming and personable animals are part of both authors’ formulas, but here instead of an animal sidekick we have animated gingerbread men and other bakery products with minds of their own, not to mention Bob the belching sourdough starter.

Personally I found Bob, the carnivorous semi-intelligent sour bread starter dough, hilarious and the Nag, the horse skeleton, rather cute.You’re probably not aware of this, but the diminutive bastards are actually the ghosts of ancient philosophers and will try to suck out the truth from your ankles at the first opportunity. Before the end of the day she’s been hauled before a tribunal for murder and becomes the target of a campaign against magic-users.

There was probably a moral lesson in there somewhere, but I had given up on moral lessons for today. Una novela juvenil entrañable, adictiva y con una chispa especial gracias a su genial narradora, su ambientación es realmente lo que hace la lectura un poco de "lugar feliz" al menos para mi (la ciudad medieval con magia, hechiceros y conspiraciones) pero también tiene momentos bastante oscurillos y sorprende con alguno de sus giros y reflexiones.

It should never have come down to a kid like her having to be the one to make people aware of the dangers against the magicas or be forced to save the day. Not the fact that they exist, but the fact that two children have to step in and save the day because there were things that someone in charge should have been doing to keep everyone safe. What she is not used to is finding a body on the floor (especially not the body of a girl around her own age). With a side-kick named Bob (yeast starter), a gingerbread man familiar, and a newfound belief and understanding of her talents she almost single-handedly helps win a war/battle. Kingfisher apparently started writing this book in 2007, but there’s quite a bit that feels very relevant to (gestures vaguely) everything that’s going on now.