Reviews tagging 'Death'

This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

130 reviews

escapismforlife's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This Poison Heart is definitely  for black women  who like greek mythology. And of course  sapphic lovers. So it's perfect I got to finish this first week of June. 

Briseis is a young teen female protagnist that has lots to learn. For one about  her birth family when she gets the news her biological  mom Selene and sister Circe left her the estate mansion in Rhineback, New York. And of course the way she got  her ability to grow plants and  safety against poison. With two moms that raised her, Bri leaves New York City for a summer in the upstate New York town. 

Now the mythology  that is a part of this is so intricate.  But at the same time makes sense.  Brisesis  through discoveries  of in the  mansion learns  about the work and ancestry. Notnto mention who she meets from living in this mansion.  Who they descend from, the work their apothecary and garden did for certain locals brings about a new world thats dangerous but gives her some more depth about her identity. The gift becomes  more dangerous  with the fact its goes back to Hecate and old relative Medea. 


She finds out the risks of this world and power quick enough. With one seceret and dangerous heart plant that was under Selene and Circes protection in there garden.  This being the major danger that causes the plot. With  her family throughout and the end of this story.

 I can't wait to see what new details are revealed  in This Wicked Fate. But at the same time am  extremely  nervous with how this one concludes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Medical content, Murder, Racism, and Violence

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Violence, Death, Torture, Blood, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, and Body horror

Minor: Pregnancy, Racism, Toxic friendship, and Police brutality

bookforestsprite's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Death

Moderate: Violence and Gore

noodlesny's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Blood, Murder, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Cursing

There's an unorthodox minor/adult relationship. It's not the standard type of disturbing of, say, a 30 yr old 'dating' a 16 yr old. It's a similar theme that comes up in certain anime at times, if you're familiar with those. It wasn't enough to make me stop reading but I was definitely uncomfortable with it and kept thinking about it throughout the reading.

So there was a 16 year old and a hundreds of years old immortal being that's in a teenaged body. This felt icky to me bc even though they did present and interact with the minor as a fellow teenager, they had the literal mind of a multi century old adult. They even mentioned them dating a present character's dead grandparent in the past. It's just weird.

blkunicorn's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.5

The plot “twist” was very predictable.

Overall the book was nice and a little fun. Bri frustrated me in her thought process sometimes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Violence and Death

Minor: Murder

abitbetterbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Violence, and Death

natraf_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

I loved this greek mythology inspired tale of a teenage girl discovering more about herself and her lineage !

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Grief and Toxic friendship

mayachuchu13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Everything was great. Love the story, romance, plot twists. All of it was well thought-out and the MC is so likable, I was rooting for her since chapter one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Gaslighting, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Gun violence

Only two confusing things (#2 is a spoiler): 1. If Bri literally has magic powers it’s kinda stupid how she has this “there’s no such thing as magic!” attitude every time she learns something new. You literally grew up with magic powers, why are you so doubtful of witches and spells??

2. At the end when Hecate save Bri, why couldn’t she have come before the mom died??? What triggers Hecate and why was that trigger so late??? I hope it’s answered in book 2 T-T

matmatmatty's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Loved this book! It has a real air of mystery about it and I found myself constantly reading because I wanted to put all the pieces together. Towards the end, I could not put it down! Cannot wait for the next book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Murder, Death, and Death of parent

gen_nh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

First couple of chapters were a bit slow for my preference but it picked up quickly after that and the relaxed and matter of fact way sexuality/race/gender is approached is great to read. Non of those factors were defining parts of the characters and were just naturally part of them. 

I loved the mix of tense action and emotional moments, and the mythology mixed with real life was really well executed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Death, and Gun violence