Social Book Club - Fantasy Circle - A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
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Welcome to the "Fantasy and Historical Fiction" Reading Circle of the Social Book Club!
We will meet to discuss T. Kingfisher's fantasy novel "A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking" (306 pages).
The meeting point is at JO&JOE on the 5th floor. Drinks and some food can be bought there, so if possible please buy something for reasons of politeness, if you can afford it, since they provide the space for free.
Book Description:
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…