Title: A Wizards Guide to Defensive Baking

Author: T Kingfisher

Fourteen-year-old Mona isn’t like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can’t control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt’s bakery making gingerbread men dance.

But Mona’s life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona’s city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona’s worries…

Loved, loved, loved! This author is now one of my firm favourites!

Mona, a wizard, who can work wonders with baked goods, lives with her Aunt and Uncle in a bakery in a place where magical folk are being murdered…..and Mona seems to be next!

With her new sidekick, Spindle, she is on the run and meets a surprising ally to try and beat the bad guys!

I really enjoyed this read, my highlights were:

~ Bob the sourdough starter
~ The baked goods battle!
~ Spindle, ready for anything!

Fabulous!