Seven Recipes for Revolution

By Ryan Rose

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F9VWWW76
• ISBN13: 9798998777219
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Ryan Rose
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Chefs and monsters!

First of all I got a good laugh with the warning at the beginning to not try to make the recipes written in this book. Very wise, especially with some of the more exotic ingredients (aka human bits)! I enjoyed this storyline as it had an interesting twist with the Greater Recipes that give people special abilities, most commonly endurance but also possible to even control others. The format, with Paprik, the Butcher telling his story to the Archivist to get out of being executed for regicide, among other things, hooked me right away because I knew it would be quite the journey! You have the Rares in control, with a power hungry king, and then there are the Commons with some rebelling which Paprik ends up with after creating a Greater recipe and put into the Rare group because they want that recipe. Lots of violence, cooking, learning recipes, turncoats, death of loved ones, and vows of vengeance of course. It makes for a fascinating world and seeing Paprik's journey was interesting, especially with the jumps from past to the present when he is regaling his story which may or may not all be true. Yes, it ends on a cliffhanger after much awesomeness and I hope I get the chance to see what Paprik does next on his search for the Source and all the powers he has amassed! This was an awesome audiobook to listen to and the narrator, Shaun Mendum, did a good job of bringing this world of giant monsters, powerful chefs, and rebelling of the Commons to life. I hope they eat the Rare!! Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me a chance to listen to this audiobook!