Book Review: Garlic and the Witch by Bree Paulsen

November 11, 2024

I love this book even more than I loved her first book in this little duology Garlic and the Vampire.

Similar to the previous book, we follow a sweet young veggie person named Garlic, and she discovers early in the book, that she is eventually going to grow into a person. This is exciting, but even more than that, it is completely terrifying. She struggles with the amount of things that are going to change when she is no longer tiny and made of garlic, but human sized and made of skin and bones. She worries that things will change in her friendships and partnership with Carrot and that there will be things that she cannot do. But during this journey, she stretches her bravery to the limits and grows in ways that she didn’t know to be possible.

I loved this book and would suggest it to anyone who is going through scary changes in life, or has ever dealt with something that could possibly change every aspect of your life. Bree Paulsen does a great job of capturing the worry and the love that Garlic is feeling, and it feels like the coming-of-age veggie graphic novel I was needing right now.