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Welcome to Fantastic Top Fives with Wyrd & Wonder!

Wyrd and Wonder have brought back their Top Fives prompts, so every Friday this month, we’ll be tackling the prompts in our 5-Star Books in Five Words feature.

The first prompt was: Your Favourite Magical Systems or Spells.

The second was: Your Favourite Songs That You Associate with the Magical – so we looked at magic systems that used song!

Last week we looked at Our Favourite Magic Casters

This week, it’s Magical Ingredients – we chose to interpret this as a story that requires lots of elements to come together, a story that has a magic system that needs ingredients!

A big thank you to all our contributors for their excellent recommendations!

Underlined book titles in bold contain links to reviews on this site.

Beth:

A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I Lin.

Blending

tea

makes

beautiful

magic

Gray:

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
Ratman

baker

makes

Cinnamon

Buns

Nils:

Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson

Food

fuels

a

Surgebinder’s

powers!

Hil:

A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by Ursula Vernon

Remember

your

familiar

sourdough

starter

Julia:

Seeds of War by Joáo F. Silva

Untypical

older

characters

do

rock 

Theo:

Asterix in Switzerland by René Goscinny

Gaul

chases

flower

in

flat-land.

And there we have it! Our last 5-Star Reads for this year’s Wyrd and Wonder. We hope you enjoyed all our recommendations!

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Flying witch artwork by astromoali