We have a lot of eARC’s and we want to promote them a little bit more. So we decided to do some more Bookish Beginnings On Friday. Today I wanted to share the beginning of Seven Recipes for Revolution by Ryan Rose. This is one of my latest eARC’s and it releases July 22th. Let’s jump in!
The Bear meets Attack on Titan in this exhilarating, food-based epic fantasy filled with high stakes and monster steaks, perfect for fans of Pierce Brown and Jay Kristoff.
Seventeen-year-old Paprick is a common butcher, carving slabs of meat from gargantuan monsters so elite chefs can prepare magic-granting meals for the rich. But Paprick’s true passion is cooking, and if he can learn the secret art, his dreams of liberating his people and sharing the monsters’ magic with the world could come true. He steals the precious ingredients needed to practise recipes at home, but if he’s caught, he’ll be executed.
As his desperation grows, he ventures into the black market and uncovers a spice imported from unknown lands. Combining it with the last of his stolen meat, he cooks a dish the world has never tasted before, with side-effects he couldn’t have foreseen.
The dish’s magic grows Paprick to kaiju-size, and legends of his powers spread among the people. Immediately, the rulers arrest him, but Paprick convinces them to make him a chef’s apprentice―if they ever want to learn his Recipe. However, his exposure to the world of high cuisine reveals the rot at its centre, and with his new power, rebellion is only a few recipes away…
Before he was Paprick the Butcher, he was Paprick, a butcher. Not in earnest yet, but an apprentice still. Little more than a common farmboy, indentured to the factory, slicing emphon flanks the size of a bison into strips and steaks. it is no wonder he became the Butcher. The King’s Factory churned out but one product: flesh.
And Paprick got his pound of it.
For all the good it did.
“The charges are as follows,” read the executioner from beside the young queen, his voice booming before a crowd so large. “Three counts treason, twenty score counts murder, one count blasphemy, seven counts espionage, one count regicide, and …” His sneer rose to the execution girder, where the Butcher hung bound wrists wriggling like a fish hooked about the street two dozen metres below. “Two counts cannibalism.”
Okay, I loved this opening and immediately read the whole chapter. This started of really fun and unique! I forgot what it was about precisely before starting the book and was pleasantly surprised. It sounds like this is a really unique world and magic system and I’m so curious to find out how it all works. I think I will really enjoy this book, based on the first chapter the writing style is enjoyable and I’m already invested in some of the characters.
Hopefully I can continue reading this one soon, I have high hopes! There are just a couple of reviews so far, but most are really positive. Had you heard of this book yet? Are you interested in it? I would love to hear from you down below!
