
This Poison Heart
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Bloomsbury presents This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron, read by Jordan Cobb.
Darkness blooms in best-selling author Kalynn Bayron’s new contemporary fantasy about a girl with a unique and deadly power.
Briseis has a gift: she can grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms with a single touch.
When Briseis’ aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents decide to leave Brooklyn behind for the summer. Hopefully there, surrounded by plants and flowers, Bri will finally learn to control her gift. 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.
When strangers begin to arrive on their doorstep, asking for tinctures and elixirs, Bri learns she has a surprising talent for creating them. One of the visitors is Marie, a mysterious young woman whom Bri befriends, only to find that Marie is keeping dark secrets about the history of the estate and its surrounding community. There is more to Bri’s sudden inheritance than she could have imagined, and she is determined to uncover it...until a nefarious group comes after her in search of a rare and dangerous immortality elixir. Up against a centuries-old curse and the deadliest plant on earth, Bri must harness her gift to protect herself and her family.
From the best-selling author of Cinderella Is Dead comes another inspiring and deeply compelling story about a young woman with the power to conquer the dark forces descending around her.
- Listening Length10 hours and 17 minutes
- Audible release dateJune 29, 2021
- LanguageEnglish
- ASINB097HQ57J2
- VersionUnabridged
- Program TypeAudiobook
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Product details
Listening Length | 10 hours and 17 minutes |
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Author | Kalynn Bayron |
Narrator | Jordan Cobb |
Whispersync for Voice | Ready |
Audible.com Release Date | June 29, 2021 |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B097HQ57J2 |
Best Sellers Rank | #12,175 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #21 in Contemporary Fantasy for Teens #25 in Paranormal Fantasy for Teens #31 in Paranormal Mystery, Thriller & Suspense for Teens |
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Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2022
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A lot of this book is a mystery because Briseis is adopted and then she’s willed an estate which was owned by her bio aunt, Circe. We learn that all is not as it seems at this new home Briseis and her moms have moved into. I loved that Briseis has two very loving moms. Her moms were my favorite characters in the book. The story is wonderfully diverse with Briseis moms and she herself being bisexual. There is a blossoming love interest in this story as well.
Briseis is very trusting and that bites her in the end. At times I just wish she wasn’t so trusting but she has to make her mistakes and learn but it’s a hard lesson in this story. The second half of the book was so much better than the first half. The first half was a little too slow for me but it’s due to setting up all the backstory of Briseis connection to Medea. The second half pulls the story together and there are some crazy things that happen. It definitely sets everything up nicely for the sequel.
Enter the plot: a lawyer shows up from her birth family's estate to announce she's inherited a house in upstate New York. Cool! Her moms pack up the apartment and head to Rhinebeck and Briseis's ancestral home, where she's presented with an garden obstacle course to get at whatever her birth family has spent centuries protecting. But, naturally, someone else wants it first. People start showing up, asking when she's going to reopen the house's apothecary. Their car's tires get slashed. It turns out Rheinbeck has some secrets and Briseis's family was right in the middle of them, so now she has to figure out what those secrets are to take control of her life or risk getting sent back to Brooklyn, where she can't be herself. Cool, okay!
But, dang, the execution. I just don't know how to say this other than details don't knit together or make sense in the larger scheme of the plot. Briseis knows she's immune to poison before she discovers she's immune to poison, for instance. So why the big reveal? The entire book is like this, meandering all over itself setting up revelations to secrets that don't appear to go anywhere. Characters are introduced in order to give Briseis some knowledge to set up what she has to do at the end and then disappear entirely. Sometimes the knowledge itself simply opens up a plothole the book doesn't fill--possibly because there's a second book in the works? Maybe? Unsure. I also felt like the plot was being spoon fed a bit, with the book taking time to explain in exposition what had just been revealed in action, which...why? It made the main character look dense, or like she wasn't paying any attention. At one point a character says she doesn't know how better to explain and I'm like the reader has picked up all the many hints, why hasn't Briseis?
The ending itself was a whole issue. Most of the characters acted out of character or simply didn't act at all. It's difficult to follow because characters said one thing and then acted totally different. The villain was underwhelming. There was some heavy monologuing going on to explain all the whys, since you'd have no clue why the villain--who also was acting totally out of character and had made irrational choices that made no sense--was a villain at all.
I guess I'm just disappointed, ultimately. I really wanted to love this--and the concept is still super cool and unique--but this is another one of those instances for me where a book that's the first of a duology (trilogy? unsure.) is doing too much than it can handle within its page limit and doesn't satisfyingly conclude.
The main character is likable, but towards the end of it started to get on my nerves with her reckless stupidity to move the plot forward. I don't believe stupidity should be something that moves the story along. Her youth and naivety is understandable with her age, but she makes some seriously questionable decisions I regards to her friends safety and revealing sensitive information. She also ignores clear warning signs at times that make me question if she's truly black, lol. Am jokes aside, it was a good book. The ending...well maybe its a bit much, but the story lays the foundation of even bigger mysteries and supernatural events that may come so maybe it sets just the right tone that it needs. I'd be in seeing some fan art of this story and hopefully the main character will wisen up in time.
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This book contains details of violence, murder, homicides, poisons, injuries, etc.
If a sensitive reader, this book may not be for you.
Am I mad? Absolutely!!
Do I want more? Of course!!!
I am currently an emotional wreck after this book🤪
Kalynn Bayron I have a bone to pick with you, was everything truly necessary!? WAS THAT BETRAYAL NECESSARY!? 😠
I will not rest until I have the next book in my hands! I need to know what happens and how....and who can be trusted anymore!? My trust issues are not happy with you Kalynn Bayron. 🙂
....
From the very beginning, I was interested. As you begin reading, it feels slightly mysterious. You don't know all the details straight away, instead, they are slowly revealed to you. This is what kept me keen on reading further.
Finding out more and more about Bri alongside her was truly interesting. She's basically a plant whisperer if you ask me.
The intwined Greek Mythology had me. I love learning more and more and Kalynn Bayron had clearly done her research.
Bri's moms...ugh...I love them. That's all I gotta say. Mo's (Angie) inability to cook breakfast and her overflowing confidence really warmed my heart. Mom's (Thandie) over-protectivenesss of Bri was felt.
I could connect well to Bri's character and I definitely feel that she has even bigger trust issues now than what she had at the beginning *death stare directed at no author in particular....*.
I cannot wait for book 2!! I need it ASAP😣 Must I wait till June 😩


Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 7, 2022
This book contains details of violence, murder, homicides, poisons, injuries, etc.
If a sensitive reader, this book may not be for you.
Am I mad? Absolutely!!
Do I want more? Of course!!!
I am currently an emotional wreck after this book🤪
Kalynn Bayron I have a bone to pick with you, was everything truly necessary!? WAS THAT BETRAYAL NECESSARY!? 😠
I will not rest until I have the next book in my hands! I need to know what happens and how....and who can be trusted anymore!? My trust issues are not happy with you Kalynn Bayron. 🙂
....
From the very beginning, I was interested. As you begin reading, it feels slightly mysterious. You don't know all the details straight away, instead, they are slowly revealed to you. This is what kept me keen on reading further.
Finding out more and more about Bri alongside her was truly interesting. She's basically a plant whisperer if you ask me.
The intwined Greek Mythology had me. I love learning more and more and Kalynn Bayron had clearly done her research.
Bri's moms...ugh...I love them. That's all I gotta say. Mo's (Angie) inability to cook breakfast and her overflowing confidence really warmed my heart. Mom's (Thandie) over-protectivenesss of Bri was felt.
I could connect well to Bri's character and I definitely feel that she has even bigger trust issues now than what she had at the beginning *death stare directed at no author in particular....*.
I cannot wait for book 2!! I need it ASAP😣 Must I wait till June 😩


Plus there were so many pop culture references I was really put off.
Sometimes I had to reread because I would lose the flow of the page but, don't think that's entirely the books fault if I wasn't completely invested however I just felt I was missing parts of the storyline.
The last 200 pages or so we're good, and then you're just left with a cliffhanger! So yes, if there's another book I shall read it even if I didn't fully enjoy this one!

Now I may be showing my age but I love, love, love briseis' parents! I thought the banter between them all was hilarious!!
I stopped tabbing books a few months ago. But let me tell you I needed to tab with this book. I was honestly so suspicious of everyone in this book!!
The ending had me so shocked I genuinely could not speak!!
Why oh why did I decide to read this as soon as it was released!!

The character's are so vivid, our main character Briseis is a a great character. She was relatable and easy to connect with.
The story was very unique and super interesting. I loved the mixture of magic and mythology and it has made me want to learn more about the mythology that was mentioned.
The twists?! Oh my goodness the twists had me yelling in shock!
I highly reccomend this book and cannot wait for the next instalment.
