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Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet


A Young Adult Fantasy Novel


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Amnesia,
  • Ghosts,
  • Captivity,
  • Memory Loss,
  • Redemption
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Baking magic that literally changes people
  • Dark fairy tale vibes with sinister sweets and living pastries
  • Mysterious pasts slowly unraveling through ghostly encounters
Publisher Description

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.

This is a haunting and otherworldly tale of folly and consequence, forgiveness and redemption.

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