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Title: The Confictioner's Guild (The Confectioner Chronicles #1)
Author: Claire Luana
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 327
Date read: December, 2018

Wren knew her sweet treats could work wonders, but she never knew they could work magic. She barely has time to wrap her head around the stunning revelation when the head of the prestigious Confectioner’s Guild falls down dead before her. Poisoned by her cupcake.

Now facing murder charges in a magical world she doesn’t understand, Wren must discover who framed her or face the headsman’s axe. With the help of a handsome inspector and several new friends, Wren just might manage to learn the ropes, master her new powers, and find out who framed her. But when their search for clues leads to a deep-rooted conspiracy that goes all the way to the top, she realizes that the guild master isn’t the only one at risk of death by chocolate.

If Wren can’t bring the powerful culprit to justice, she and her friends will meet a bittersweet end.


This took me far longer to read than it had any right to. And for no reason at all! It was a delightful book, full of suspense, magic and romance. So though the first third took me almost 3 months to read, I finished the last two thirds in just a few hours one morning!

At the end of the day, I just loved it! The plot was fun, the characters well developed and (mostly) three dimensional, and it had some twists and turns I hadn't seen coming. I wish we'd gotten to see more of what was actually going on at the Confectioner's Guild when the place isn't buzzing with a murder investigation, as I think that would make for a fascinating and charming read, but it made sense that Claire Luana couldn't include too much of that in this first installment of the series, so I shall just have to hope there'll be room for it in the sequel.