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A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

11 reviews

twoweeeeks's review

adventurous dark hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Excrement, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal death and Fire/Fire injury

kickitupanotch7's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and War

Moderate: Child death, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death and Fire/Fire injury

puck_jay's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

That was literally so good. I hadn't read any "child" Literature in a very long time and that was so cool. Loved it. Really good. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Excrement, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Minor: Death of parent

pvp_niki's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement and War

Moderate: Death

Minor: Mental illness, Vomit, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

uranaishi's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Mental illness, Racism, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

elltea11's review

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

There were several places where I felt like the book could and perhaps should have ended. Not as good as Nettle & Bone imo, but still worth a read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Violence, Xenophobia, Excrement, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Mental illness, Self harm, Sexism, Suicide, Vomit, Police brutality, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Classism

thoseoldcrows23's review

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I so wish I could go back in time and hand this book to my pre-teen self because I know it would have immediately become a favorite of all time. As it stands, I loved this book a whole lot. Specifically, the cast of characters really stole my heart. If you're looking for something whimsical and fun with just a splash of darkness, this is a great one to pick up, and I can see it become a comfort read for me moving forward. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Vomit, Grief, Murder, and War

Minor: Animal death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

annorabrady's review

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

This was a fun story, definitely good for middle grades. But it's hard to stay invested in a story where a 14 year old suddenly becomes a war hero after never doing anything more than accidental magic or simple baking tricks in a matter of weeks.

Especially when she's done so by using magic in ways that should have taken years to even learn how to do, and somehow this magic resulted in protecting all but 7 people on her side.

 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

novella42's review

adventurous dark funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

Such a fun, weird, dark-yet-delightful book! I love baking bread and reading fantasy stories, and found this book to be hilarious and just the right amount of snarky. I usually avoid dark/horror themes but I love Kingfisher's style and take on mental health and relationships enough that I keep going back to read a lot of Kingfisher's other books in the Clocktower universe. I kept imagining this story taking place there, too. It's certainly dark enough for it, to the point where I kept feeling surprised that this is a young adult novel. But then Mona would do or say something and I'd have a little argument with myself that of course this is a young adult novel. If Hunger Games is Young Adult, than this can be too, and is a heck of a lot sweeter. (And not just because of all the scones and gingerbread.) I genuinely love Mona and all the people in her life. Kingfisher has a real talent for writing group dynamics and I think that shows here. I was surprised to learn in her afterword that she first wrote this in 2007, as many of the themes are especially relevant in the 2020s. I'd love to read another in a series, and I also think this makes a lovely standalone story too. Well done, Kingfisher!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Hate crime, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, and War

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Xenophobia, Stalking, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Genocide, Medical content, and Cannibalism

clarabooksit's review

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

Moderate: Vomit and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Animal death and Death of parent