A review by ljrinaldi
Baker's Magic by Diane Zahler

3.0

If I were a middle-schooler, I would probably find nothing wrong with this book. It has magic, it has the poor orphan girl, it has an evil wizard, and pirates. There is even a female pirate captain. There is a captive princess and a poor blacksmith boy. What else could I possibly want?

The story is about Bee, who lost her parents in a ship wreck and after living with foster parents, has finally struck out on her own, and found herself in a kingdom that resembles the Netherlands, but a magic Netherlands, in some time either after civilization has fallen, or back in magic times. I never could figure that part out.

And Bee apprenticies herself to a baker, and learns to bake emotions into her cookies and pastries.

And yeah, it all turns out well in the end.

And, as I said, if I were a middle-schooler, I would probably love the weird accents on just the pirates, and the fact that the trees were taken away a hundred years ago, so the people don't know about things that grow on trees, even though they import other things, so they should have figured that part out.

Anyway. It was fun enough, if you didn't stop to wonder what the ships were built from, and the furniture, and the houses, and the doors, if there were no trees.

But, that is just me.


Thanks to Netgally for making this book available for an honest review