Temper Readers:
The Poisons We Drink is the sort of story that each hurts your coronary heart, and offers you hope. In the event you’re within the temper to witness the wrestle and sacrifice that comes from defending these you’re keen on, you need to seize this ebook proper now.
How did the ebook make you’re feeling?
Would you suggest this ebook?
There are a number of causes I might suggest this ebook to fantasy readers. Venus Stoneheart is a fierce heroine with a darkish facet. She has to pay steep penalties for supporting her household, and to advance a secret mission to save lots of Witcher society. It’s all morally grey, which makes for excellent studying.
Additionally, I’m a sucker for tales that mirror the true injustices taking place in actual society. I believe when authors place a mystical lens on prejudice and social injustice, it causes younger readers to suppose exterior the field. It’s straightforward to proper the wrongs with magic, potions, and blood oaths. In the actual world, it’s protest and political voting to garner change. I believe tales like this could resonate with younger individuals higher than true historical past within the classroom.
Bethany Baptiste packed extra twists on this story than I might depend. The Poisons we drink is difficult to place down!
Would you be pals with the principle character IRL?
I can see how Venus Stoneheart could be a difficult buddy. She’s the sort of one that desires to resolve all of the world’s issues on her personal, however would assist others she loves right away. It’s a loveable but annoying flaw that I’d be drawn to in actual life. Let me enable you to Venus!
What songs would you placed on this ebook’s playlist?
American Requiem by Beyonce
A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke
I see Purple by All people Loves an Outlaw
The Poisons We Drink Synopsis:
In a rustic divided between people and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making unlawful love potions to help her household.
Love potions is a harmful enterprise. Brewing has painful, debilitating unwanted effects, and getting caught means dying or a jail sentence. However what Venus is most afraid of is the darkish, sentient magic inside her.
Then an enemy’s iron bullet kills her mom, Venus’s life implodes. Preserving her reckless little sister Janus secure is now her duty. When the highly effective Grand Witcher, the ruthless head of her coven, presents Venus the possibility to punish her mom’s killer, she has to pay a steep worth for revenge. The fee? Brew toxic potions to enslave D.C.’s most influential politicians.
As Venus crawls deeper into the corrupt underbelly of her metropolis, the road between magic and energy blurs, and it’s exhausting to inform who to belief…Herself included.
The Poisons We Drink is a potent YA debut a few world the place love potions are weaponized towards hate and prejudice, sisterhood is unbreakable, and self-love is life and dying.