A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

How it reads

A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking is fantasy (cozy fantasy adventure, specifically), and its dominant mood is funny. The humour is the point, not garnish. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in an invented world, in no single period, told in the third person, staying close to one character. Its central concerns are coming of age, friendship and power and politics. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 306 pages it's a quick read. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.