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

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking perhaps was just not made for me. 

The story is cute, the characters perhaps even cuter (and also weird), but I just couldn’t get into it.

The main character is a 14-year-old girl, and this, I think, is where I struggled. I listened to this one as an audiobook and the narrator was so adult, imaginging a child instead of a grown (and very posh) woman, was difficult.

Aside from that, the MC’s inner voice was so adult-like and mature, it threw me. 

I do think the audiobook contributed to all of this. Id I’d have read the physical book, I may well have felt differently.