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venneh 's review for:
Master of Poisons
by Andrea Hairston
This was Ms. Hairston's first traditionally published novel, and to some degree, it shows. She aims high with all the balls of lore and characters and plots that she tries to keep in the air, and to some degree, she drops a few, because I will be very honest, I was not sure what was going on at several points in this novel. However, I love the way she focuses on the epic fantasy via nontraditional magics (song, plant life). This one didn't land home for me, but good news - other stuff she's written clicked far more for me. If you're looking for YA fantasy with lots of neat ideas and an African inspired lore, you could do far worse than to pick this up from the library.