The Heartbreak Bakery

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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.

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Alana

The ombre color scheme. The writing. The representation. The STORY. Where was this book when I fit neatly into the YA genre as a reader? This book is all sorts of delicious (ha!) and I flew through it and left it feeling warm. As a queer woman myself, seeing these books with the variety of representation is a perk to my days I usually don't know I needed until I get them. This one is cute, dynamic, and has a great cast of characters.

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