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Cooking with Monsters (Book One): The Beginner's Guide to Culinary Combat

by Jordan Alsaqa

A culinary academy with monsters on the menu

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A culinary academy with monsters on the menu

At Gourmand Academy, culinary training means learning both to battle monsters and prepare them as food. Hana Ozawa arrives with a natural aptitude, but she must find a way to distinguish herself among equally capable classmates—and hopes to impress the warrior chef who once saved her life. A crush on a formidable rival adds a personal thread to the academy’s competitive world. The description also highlights multicultural cuisine and an LGBTQ+ cast, bringing those elements into an action-adventure setting built around cooking and combat.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in action-adventure graphic novels.
  • Readers who enjoy fantasy-school settings that combine combat with cooking.
  • Readers seeking LGBTQ+ characters and multicultural cuisine in a fantastical adventure.

Themes

Culinary combatCompetition and ambitionRomantic crushesLGBTQ+ representationMulticultural cuisine

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Book overview

Fast-paced monster fights and burgeoning high school romances are both on the menu in this exciting young adult debut from Jordan Alsaqa and Vivian Truong.

Hana Ozawa is the newest face at the Gourmand Academy of Culinary Combat, a school that will teach her how to fight monsters AND how to turn them into delicious meals. Hana is a natural, but so are her classmates, and she struggles to keep up--she's gotta stand out, especially if she wants to impress the warrior chef who saved her life as a child. Throw in a crush on a formidable lady rival and a dash of multicultural cuisine, and this unique and hilarious story is sure to hit the spot!

Cooking with Monsters is Naruto with a cast of LGBTQ+ characters. It's Percy Jackson or Harry Potter without a straight white man in the pilot seat. It's perfect for every young reader out there who doesn't feel like they get to see themselves represented in the fantastical adventures they read.
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