This Poison Heart - Kirjakasa

Paperback

Published June 17, 2021 by BLOOMSBURY.

ISBN:: 978-1-5266-3279-1

(1 review)

To break an ancient curse she must let her power bloom.

Briseis has a gift. She can grow an apple tree from seed in a heartbeat, and flowers bloom at her touch. And when she inherits an old house, she suddenly has the privacy to test her powers for the first time. But as Bri starts to magic the house's rambling grounds back to life, she finds she has also inherited generations of secrets. In a hidden garden overgrown with the most deadly poisonous plants on earth a dark legacy lies waiting for her. And Bri's long-departed ancestors won't let her rest until she finds it.

From the author of Cinderella is Dead Comes a contemporary fantasy about knowing where you come from and stepping into your power.

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Enum & Valerie reviewed This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

Bri is so precious

4 stars

Queer black girl with two moms can do plant magic and poisons, falls in love with a beautiful 300-years old immortal while navigating her own insecurities about friendship and about her ancestors, while solving the riddle of her millenia-old family history tied deeply with Greek mythology and poison botanics? Yeah how to not love this.

One minus point for the scene where Alec can suddenly translate ancient greek from 400 BC on-the-fly but needs an "ancient phoneme table" for it. Honestly, if you have the skill to pull this off, you don't need a phoneme table. And if you need a phoneme table, you definitely don't have the skill to translate texts on-the-fly. (I'm just being pedantic here, it's a great read).