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The Cake Fairies
"Nigella in a novel." - HEIDI CATHERINE1960's Somerset is no fun for cousins Polly and Annabelle Williams. Mourning their non-existent love lives, and the mundanity of village life, their only pleasure is baking - until a chance encounter has them magically transported to the bright lights of London... in 2019!Promised a chance of love, first thry must teach the people of the future about the simpler pleasures of life by becoming Cake Fairies. Over the course of a year they set off on a delectable tour of the UK, dropping off cakes in the most unexpected of places and replacing the lure of technology with much sweeter temptations.But will their philanthropical endeavours lead them to everlasting love? Or will they discover you can't have your cake and eat it?
Published: October 13, 2019
Pages: 392
ISBN: 9781699590942
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Charlene M.
Apr 18, 2026
This is the second book I have read by Isabella May (and I have a 3rd one on the TBR), but I think so far its my favorite. I like time travel and its time travel forward which you don't see often in books. (Usually it's backwards). I also liked all the different cakes and some of the drops were pretty memorable!
One thing that stands out as a critique is the pacing is weird. It starts pretty slow in Sometset 1969, then speeds up in 2019 and feels kinda... lurchy? The ending comes pretty suddenly so it takes two thirds the book to do 6 months of the year in the future and then less than a third to do the other 6 months. As a result, it feels kinda jammed. I really would have liked to see more about Ivy in the last half and a slightly less rushed climax.
Having Polly forgive Annabelle so quickly when she really did something pretty awful felt forced. And the ending didnt make as much sense. Why did Alex's older brother get zapped to the past?
And I think the ending missed the chance for a bit of something sweet - I was expecting Ivy to be related to one of them (after all, they kept talking about how familiar she was) and i think it would have been neat for 80/81 year old annabelle to show up at Polly's wedding. Or *she* (as an elder) could have been the one to tell Polly to ask her cousin what really happened with Alex. Any of those would have been just neat touches
None of this was a *big* deal, pacing just sticks out at me.
I had a lot of fun reading this boo though and I think it would be really fun to see more Cake Fairies. Maybe going to 2030! Lol
Forgot to add:
I am reading quantum mechanics and parallel universe theory too atm, so the shout out to the idea of quantum mechanics and parallel worlds in The Cake Fairies made me smile
One thing that stands out as a critique is the pacing is weird. It starts pretty slow in Sometset 1969, then speeds up in 2019 and feels kinda... lurchy? The ending comes pretty suddenly so it takes two thirds the book to do 6 months of the year in the future and then less than a third to do the other 6 months. As a result, it feels kinda jammed. I really would have liked to see more about Ivy in the last half and a slightly less rushed climax.
Having Polly forgive Annabelle so quickly when she really did something pretty awful felt forced. And the ending didnt make as much sense. Why did Alex's older brother get zapped to the past?
And I think the ending missed the chance for a bit of something sweet - I was expecting Ivy to be related to one of them (after all, they kept talking about how familiar she was) and i think it would have been neat for 80/81 year old annabelle to show up at Polly's wedding. Or *she* (as an elder) could have been the one to tell Polly to ask her cousin what really happened with Alex. Any of those would have been just neat touches
None of this was a *big* deal, pacing just sticks out at me.
I had a lot of fun reading this boo though and I think it would be really fun to see more Cake Fairies. Maybe going to 2030! Lol
Forgot to add:
I am reading quantum mechanics and parallel universe theory too atm, so the shout out to the idea of quantum mechanics and parallel worlds in The Cake Fairies made me smile