The Gingerbread Witch, Alexandra Overy
The Gingerbread Witch, Alexandra Overy
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The Gingerbread Witch

Author: Alexandra Overy

Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown

Unabridged: 5 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/13/2022

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Synopsis

“A magical tale, brimming with heart." —Anne Ursu, National Book Award–long-listed author of The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy

Maud has grown up in a house made of gingerbread, wanting nothing more than to be a witch like Mother Agatha. But just like all of Agatha's gingerbread creations—from the magical house to the chocolate mousse squirrel—Maud will turn back into crumbs if anything ever happens to Agatha.
This seems unthinkable…until Hansel and Gretel, a pair of witch hunters, push Agatha into the cottage's oven.
To save herself and the other creations, Maud will have to go into the dangerous forest of the Shadelands to find the First Witch's spellbook. But with witch hunters on her trail and others interested in the book for their own means, can Maud bring back the only mother she's ever known…or will witch hunters capture her before she can save her gingerbread family?
 

About Alexandra Overy

Alexandra Overy grew up in London and moved to LosAngeles to pursue her undergraduate degree in history at UCLA, where she alsocompleted her MFA in screenwriting, and stuck around for the weather and greatice cream. She loves writing in all formats, always centering on fierce womenand morally gray characters, often with a bit of magic and murder. When she’snot writing, she can be found baking, fangirling over her favorite books, orcuddling her foster kittens.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kalyn

What an adorable, heartwarming story. Full of baking, animal companions, and adventure, THE GINGERBREAD WITCH is the perfect mix of harrowing, magical, and lovable. It does a fantastic job of flipping the lore of the story on its head, making it fresh and new, while also paying homage to the origina......more

2.5 stars I really wanted to like this one...it had fairytales and it had witches, alas it was not to be. Don't get me wrong there was nothing awful about the book but there was nothing amazing either. I found that it could not grab my attention. Even though I am an avid middle grade reader I found thi......more