Paperback, 320 pages
English language
Published July 21, 2020 by Argyll Productions.
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.
I think it's time to bake some gingerbread men and draw angry eyebrows!
A solid short novel about a T Kingfisher style heroine: uncertain, doesn't want to be a hero but does the right thing anyway when it matters. Mona is a Wizard of Bread, which ends up getting used in many creative ways, including a sourdough starter familiar and gingerbread person familiar.
Aside from the lively plot, I enjoyed the commentary on heroes & the necessity of heroics, and the quiet moments with her uncle, Molly & the general.
