Author: T. Kingfisher
I instantly fell in love with this amazing book. Fourteen-year-old Mona is the baker’s niece and a baker herself. And she also is a minor mage. She can magick the best breads ever. She’s content using her gift to make the gingerbread men dance. And then, she finds a dead body and learns an assassin is after her.
“If you have ever prepared for a siege in two days, then you know what the next few days were like. If you haven’t, then you probably don’t. Well… a big formal wedding is about the same… except that if things go wrong in a siege you’ll all die horribly, and in formal weddings, the stakes are much higher.”
Mona has to learn to trust herself and that her abilities can transfer to situations outside the bakery. And then there’s Bob…
T. Kingfisher is the pseudonym for Ursula Vernon, author of the “Dragonbreath” and the “Hamster Princess” series.