09-12-2024, 11:37 PM
epub | 7.57 MB | English| | Author: T. Kingfisher | Year: 2020
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Quote:Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt's bakery making gingerbread men dance.Category:Awards, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy Fiction, Cozy Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, 2020 Andre Norton Award Nominees, 2020 Andre Norton Award Winner, 2020 Nebula Award Winners, 2021 Lodestar Award Finalists, 2021 Lodestar Award Winner
But Mona's life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona's city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona's worries...