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

February 23, 2024 by dreadpiratekel 1 Comment

I need to start this off by saying this book was perfect to me. Well, almost perfect, but I’m giving it a five-star review because the good outweighed my little nitpicks, and it felt like it was written directly to appeal to me. However, before I start raving about the parts of this book that just made my heart sing, I want to flag that I have read other books by T. Kingfisher, and those were for adults and a little more creepy than this […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: #fantasy, A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, gingerbread, magic, t kingfisher, wizards

dreadpiratekel's CBR16 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: #fantasy, A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, gingerbread, magic, t kingfisher, wizards ·
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I Am So Confused

Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi

September 24, 2019 by Classic 2 Comments

I tried. This book was bonkers (not in a good way) and I started getting bored but pushed through to finish it last night and reward myself with Great British Bake Off. I don’t know what to say except that sometimes too much magical realism can ruin a story. I couldn’t follow a lot of what was going on and then just gave up and kept hoping that things made more sense as I went along. They did not. I think the shifting timelines didn’t […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi

Classic's CBR11 Review No:229 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi ·
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