A review by libscote
This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

4.0

Plants respond to Briseis. She tries her best to control this ability, but sometimes she just can't help it. They perk up when she's around. She lives with her moms about their flower shop in Brooklyn and things aren't going great. Rent is going up, friends are drifting away. Then, she is contacted by a real estate lawyer that her birth mother's sister has left her a house in Rhinebeck, NY. They go to check it out, and it's a big ol' house with lots of secrets. The town has potential friendships, so maybe it could be all good. Then, people just start showing up at the house. What's up with that?

Bayron has given us a good story about plants, traditional medicines, uncovering history and myth, and more. It does end on a bit of a cliffhanger, so you'll want to be ready for the second part of the duology coming out in summer 2022.