![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I, like some other reviewers, found it on a list of YA novels to watch out for. In a story filled with ghosts and a girl born with wings, the item that prevented the suspension of my disbelief was the crappy historical sociology. The small bakeries that survived from the 1950s onward did so by replicating Americans' taste for cheap, chemical products during this era. Post war food industrialism killed neighborhood food artisans, one of which the protagonist's grandmother is supposed to be. In fact, I couldn't help but think in the back of my mind the whole time that the story was set in a time period that was death for American bakeries. Please don't describe another chocolate cake. Why was it set in a bakery? Why all the lengthy expositions on baked goods? Listen, I love a bakery as much as the next guy, but at points I felt like enough was enough. I found the whole bakery sub theme to be distracting and annoying. Still, it was a cool story with a few bad points in execution. So that colors my experience in a negative way. As for the book itself, well, I probably wouldn't have bought it if I had realized it was in the "Young Adult" genre. ![]() So the vocal performance of this book was pretty good. ![]()
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