The only thing that comforts Maire (though it frustrates her as well) is the occasional visits of Fyel, the winged man who appeared to her earlier.
Allemas changes his name several times during the course of this tale, indicative of his inconsistent and broken nature. He makes several strange demands of her ― for example, make a life-sized gingerbread house in the woods for a customer ― in between mistreating and neglecting her. Maire is taken and soon sold as a slave to a very odd and sinister man, Allemas, who finds out about her magical cooking abilities. He orders her to run for her life, but it’s too late: marauders on horseback are storming the village and killing or capturing everyone in sight. One day a pale, translucent man, with strange wings that look more like sunlit water than feathers, appears and talks to Maire briefly. And secondly, Maire has the magical gift of infusing her baked goods with feelings and abilities that will be absorbed by the person who eats her food: strength, love, mercy, patience … even, it seems, some magical abilities. First, other than her name, she has complete amnesia about everything in her life up to the time she appeared near the village four and a half years ago. Maire, a baker in the small village of Carmine, is notable for two unusual characteristics. Review first posted on Fantasy Literature:
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