#i've been working my way through t kingfishers stuff lately and it absolutely slaps

[theunholystromboli]

I'm reading "A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking" by T Kingfisher and it's WILD because you've got some really real and heavy hitting quotes like

"You expect heroes to survive terrible things. If you give them a medal, then you don't ever have to ask why the terrible thing happened in the first place. Or try to fix it. How else are you gonna have heroes?"

but also, a very major part of the plot is basically this scene from Shrek 2