I haven’t seen an agender MC in fiction until this book and I definitely need more now. So many of the thoughts and feelings I’ve had swirling around my brain about gender and to see them on the page was so validating. There were several passages that just GOT me. And when I think about all the people whose lives are changed by the right words, people who have to fight for them every day, I feel like I should apologize because my pronouns are No, thanks.” Or any of them fits more than the others. And it will take magical baking to do just that. With the help of Harley, the cute bike messenger, Syd is determined to fix the damage caused.

Syd throws all the post-breakup feelings into a batch of brownies at the Proud Muffin and ends up breaking several couples up, including the owners of the Proud Muffin. After Syd and W (Syd’s girlfriend) break up, Syd is at a loss. The story follows Syd (no pronouns), who is an agender teenage baker. The Heartbreak Bakery is a story about queer joy, magical baking, love and heartbreak. Thank you so much to Pride Book Tours and Candlewick Press for a finished copy in exchange for an honest review. Dylan and Syd are two of the most relatable characters I’ve come across and I love these two so much. And that includes Cute Mutants Vol 1: Mutant Pride! And like CM, this book means so much to me because of the agender rep. This is really one of the gayest books I’ve ever read.

And Harley believes Syd’s magical baking can fix things, too-one recipe at a time.Īmazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository | Book Shop | Blackwells

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. Being dumped is one thing causing ripples of queer heartbreak through the community is another. And their breakup might take the bakery down with it. Even Vin and Alec, who own the Proud Muffin. And everyone who eats Syd’s breakup brownies. Being dumped is no different, except now Syd is baking at the Proud Muffin, a queer bakery and community space in Austin. Syd (no pronouns, please) has always dealt with big, hard-to-talk-about things by baking. Unless, of course, it was done by my brownies. 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.

The heartbreak bakery book