This Poison Heart: From the Author of the Tiktok Sensation Cinderella Is Dead

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Aswell of anticipation crashed through me as a stout evergreen stalk broke through the dirt and immediately sprouted several small offshoots. After having successfully flipped the Cinderella myth and shattered the glass slipper into smithereens in Cinderella is Dead, Kalynn Bayron is back with another intriguing reimagining, This Poison Heart. Mom flipped on the Bluetooth speaker and Faith Evans’s voice rang out as she bobbed her head to the beat. 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.

Cleverly interweaving gothic tropes, plant lore and Greek mythology, this is a contemporary and original fantasy, empowering and inclusive with a strong feminist tone and flashes of humour too. It's impossible not to be so completely drawn into this dark and thrilling family mystery that the cliffhanger ending comes as a real shock. The protagonist Briseis is infused with a sweet and cheery personality that makes it easy to like her character.Readers will share the protagonist's curiosity about her powers and eagerness to uncover her history.

So much of what stuck with me was the fluidity in which Bayron presented commentary on race and societal issues on par with everything else that was going on.There's no development, and is only important in the one chapter it is introduced, where Bri serves Isaac in her newly opened apothecary, which belonged to the Colchis women before her. Our recentshipment of chaste tree sat crowded in the space, their spiky violet blooms just beginning to open in the damp heat of summer.