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A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

By: T. Kingfisher
Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso
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Summary

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....

©2020 T. Kingfisher (P)2021 Tantor Fantasy Fiction Magic Mysteries Mystery & Suspense Science Fiction & Fantasy Magic Users Feel-Good Funny Wizardry
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Nice story, which kept me engaged. I did spend the first third trying to work out what accent the narrator had. It was very distracting. Her voice was vaguely annoying, but I stuck with it because I liked the story.

Narration was interesting....

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Enjoyed the story but the accents were painful so took me out of it. If you want someone to be English please just use an English voice actor.

Fun story

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This could have been - SHOULD have been - one of the best listens on Audible. The story is a witty, entertaining & exuberant tale, but I nearly gave up on it several times because of the appalling narration. As a voice and dialect coach myself, I can sometimes be a bit picky when people get accents wrong, but this particular narrator was in a class of her own when it came to wondering all over the globe to find her accents - often within a single sentence. And who in their right mind would allow a whole book to be narrated with such a breathy voice and such repetitive cadences? My ears are still cramping from the experience.
I'm off to listen to something read by Michael Sheen or Sam West in order to recover...

Excellent story, dreadful narration

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this book went places. it was fun. I was probably too old to properly appreciate it, but I was entertained the whole way through, which is more than I can say for a lot of middle grade books.

cute middle grade book

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Not overly keen on the narration style but the book itself was very enjoyable.
T-kingfisher’s humour within stories is a fantastic breaker when addressing more serious topics. I adored the group of odd characters with so much charm.

Funny and endearing

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