One of the visitors is Marie, a mysterious young woman who Bri befriends, only to find that Marie is keeping dark secrets about the history of the estate and its surrounding community. When strangers begin to arrive on their doorstep, asking for tinctures and elixirs, Bri learns she has a surprising talent for creating them. But their new home is sinister in ways they could never have imagined – it comes with a specific set of instructions, an old-school apothecary, and a walled garden filled with the deadliest botanicals in the world that can only be entered by those who share Bri’s unique family lineage.

Hopefully there, surrounded by plants and flowers, Bri will finally learn to control her gift. When Briseis’s aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents decide to leave Brooklyn behind for the summer. Here is a short synopsis of the book:īriseis has a gift: she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms with a single touch. It also felt like it was a standalone that had been stretched into a duology where there wasn’t really enough material to warrant that. Unfortunately I didn’t love it as much as Cinderella Is Dead, the pacing was really off, it was an incredibly slow starter and really rushed at the end. However since I really loved Cinderella Is Dead, I really wanted to come back and try and finish This Poison Heart when I was feeling more in the mood, so I decided to try it on audio this year. So This Poison Heart was one of several books I was approved for on Netgalley last year that I ended up putting on pause because I just wasn’t in the mood for e-books. BECHDEL TEST: PASS-Briseis and her mums talk about Marie.Ĭontent Warnings: Self-injury, death of a parent, murder & attempted murder, poisoning, blood, violence, death, body horror, gore, injury/injury detail, medical content, grief, hate crime, child abuse, child death, confinement, torture, kidnapping, stalking, toxic friendship, gun violence

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