The Poisons We Drink
2024
Ratings2
Average rating3.5
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Ratings2
Average rating3.5
In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family. Love potions is a dangerous business. Brewing has painful, debilitating side effects, and getting caught means death or a prison sentence. But what Venus is most afraid of is the dark, sentient magic within her. Then an enemy's iron bullet kills her mother, Venus's life implodes. Keeping her reckless little sister Janus safe is now her responsibility. When the powerful Grand Witcher, the ruthless head of her coven, offers Venus the chance to punish her mother's killer, she has to pay a steep price for revenge. The cost? Brew poisonous potions to enslave D.C.'s most influential politicians. As Venus crawls deeper into the corrupt underbelly of her city, the line between magic and power blurs, and it's hard to tell who to trust...Herself included.
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I really wanted to like this book, cover is gorgeous and enough for me to stop and pick it up.
However, I'm probably not the right audience for this book. Some teenage angst and too many secrets, and I'm not going to pretend to fully understand what's happening.
It's a very intricate world and magic and I went with, “So it's kind of like X Men but magic instead of mutants and that thing in the MC is kind of like Venom, got it.” But I didn't really get it and most magic was just stuff happening and I hoped things would become clear... it didn't.
Feels like a book that some will love and some like me just scratching their head and wondering what's going on.
Probably 2.5 but rounding it up.
