This Poison Heart
This Poison HeartKalynn Bayron
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This Poison Heart (2021)

Kalynn Bayron

Others: Mostly positive

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.

ISBN:
9781536475333
Length:
384 pages

Genres: fantasy, romance, young adult

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Loved it

it is very much about magic and about something that many I think would term witchcraft ... it's a book that very much ties in the ancient to the Contemporary and looks at the sort of passing on of this magic and mythology to the sort of present day

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