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The Heartbreak Bakery

By: A. R. Capetta
Narrated by: Krystal Hammond
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Teenage baker Syd sends ripples of heartbreak through Austin’s queer community when a batch of post-being-dumped brownies turns out to be magical - and makes everyone who eats them break up.

“What’s done is done.” Unless, of course, it was done by my brownies. Then it’s getting undone.

Syd (no pronouns, please) has always dealt with big, hard-to-talk-about things by baking. Being dumped is no different, except now Syd is baking at the Proud Muffin, a queer bakery and community space in Austin. And everyone who eats Syd’s breakup brownies...breaks up. Even Vin and Alec, who own the Proud Muffin. And their breakup might take the bakery down with it.

Being dumped is one thing; causing ripples of queer heartbreak through the community is another. But the cute bike delivery person, Harley (he or they, check the pronoun pin, it’s probably on the messenger bag), believes Syd about the magic baking. And Harley believes Syd’s magical baking can fix things, too - one recipe at a time.

©2021 A. R. Capetta (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing Fiction LGBT LGBTQ+ Literature & Fiction Romance Science Fiction & Fantasy Fantasy Magic LGBTQIA+ Teen Romance
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The story is sweet without becoming saccharine, and almost every rainbow identity and relationship you can imagine is represented here. We need more books like this, that normalise and celebrate queerness in all its forms, while not being (just) a story about gender or sexuality diversity.

This book is as lovely and comforting as a homemade chocolate chip cookie dipped in hot coffee.

Be warned - it will make you want to eat cake!

As sweet and comforting as an agender cupcake!

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What a beautiful story. Both real and magical with a theme of being true to your self. Makes me want to be and write and love and live... and maybe visit Austin Texas when the world allows it. It felt gently queer educational for straight white Australian me too. A journey I thoroughly recommend and will be checking to see if this author has shared more stories.

A New favourite author for me

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The narrator's voice is annoying. The way the words with g's at the end are pronounced with no G, so "baking" becomes "bakeen" which was very irritating to me, and distracting and confusing.
The story itself is a whole other thing. It comes across like a story written for children, by a child.

Ok

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A DNF for me. Not the kind of book I'd read/listen to. It's the content

Not what I thought

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