I genuinely love how Kingfisher writes adolescent children. They are never stupid or naive, but they still possess innocence and have much to learn. If you liked A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, I think you'll like this.

My one complaint - did it really need to be Baba Yaga who got the whole magical journey started? Why her? Look, I don't want to say that people who are not of Rus or Slav descent (or other culture with stories about Baba Yaga) can't use her in their novels, but it always seems like they make her into generic crone witch instead of tapping into what makes her so unique.