Maire is a baker with an extraordinary gift: she can infuse her treats with emotions and abilities, which are then passed on to those who eat them. She doesn’t know why she can do this and remembers nothing of who she is or where she came from.
When marauders raid her town, Maire is captured and sold to the eccentric Allemas, who enslaves her and demands that she produce sinister confections, including a witch’s gingerbread cottage, a living cookie boy, and size-altering cakes.
During her captivity, Maire is visited by Fyel, a ghostly being who is reluctant to reveal his connection to her. The more often they meet, the more her memories return, and she begins to piece together who and what she really is—as well as past mistakes that yield cosmic consequences.
Charlie N. Holmberg does it again with another fantastic story.
Imagine if a book was a cake, this would be one of the sweetest and most flavoursome cakes you’ve ever tasted.
Maire is a fabulous character, lovable from the very beginning when she has no idea of her life other than the last four years. She’s the completely perfect example of a lovable ditz until her life takes a turn for the worst. The way she brings power back to her life is fantastic, it is truly a story of self discovery (or re-discovery depending on how you look at it).
If you get a chance you should definitely check out this book. I feel like Holmberg is slowly becoming one of my “go-to” authors.
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