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

4.0

For all of Kingfisher's fantasification of realpolitik and open critiques of authority (all constables are bastards), the climax is just another fantasy battle against a faceless Mongol horde. Cozy fantasy authors need to get out from under Tolkien's shadow. They're stuck rehashing propaganda from the 1940s and it's starting to get unbearable.

A new coat of frosting does not make dichotomic violence any less stale.