This Poison Heart
Darkness blooms in bestselling author Kalynn Bayron's new contemporary fantasy about a girl with a unique and deadly power.
Briseis has a gift: with a single touch she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms. When Briseis's aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents hope that surrounded by plants and flowers, she will finally learn to control her gift. But their new home is sinister in ways they never expected--it comes with a mysterious set of instructions, a walled garden filled with the deadliest botanicals in the world, and generations of secrets. There is more to Bri's sudden inheritance than she could have imagined, and she is determined to uncover it. From the bestselling author of Cinderella Is Dead comes an enchanting story about a young woman with the power to conquer the dark forces descending around her.BUY THE BOOK
Community Reviews
I really liked it! I liked the mystery of finding out secrets in your family, my only real issue was the ending and the plot twist. To me, it kinda felt like it came out of nowhere and I really didn’t like the betrayal because that also came out of nowhere. I love surprise plot twist but this was too surprising in my opinion, there was nothing alluding to it at all . I also didn’t really like the ending because a dead relative(s) came back to life and I felt like the whole build up to her finding out about her blood family’s murders went down the drain with that. Overall though, I love love loved the mystery of it all, learning about the Poison garden and the Abystrus Heart (I think that’s what it’s called lol) and the sprinkle of Greek mythology was a plus because I love that! Would totally recommend this book!
I absolutely loved this book, They way Kalynn was able to incorporate Greek Mythology made me love it more! <3
There aren’t enough words for how captivatingly magically powerful this book is! As a young black girl (I’m non binary now, but still identify my younger self as a girl), I could never imagine reading something like this ever! All the magic and nature and myths were reserved for white people in all the books I read. To have a book where there are so many black characters, most being female, I’m astounded and grateful and in awe. There are black female heroines and villains, we are both good and evil when in most stories were either the perfect model black person or the tragic villain - a single story, single dimensional. But here, we exist in multitudes like we do in real life. Only we aren’t the only ones to see it now! I clung to every word and look forward to the next part of the adventure.
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