A review by sj_elli
Poison Princess by Kresley Cole

3.0

The premise of this book is very interesting and I think had I read it in my Twilight era, I would have ATE THIS UP. But now I'm a 34 year old lady and sometimes the early 2010s YA makes me cringe. It's very "of the time" even though that's only 10ish years ago. The best way I can think of describing it is like a CW show where it's not the best thing out there but you just want to keep watching. You want to see what happens next. The MC, Evie, is a popular cheerleader rich bitch type. She gets sent to a mental institution because of visions she is having. The story starts when she gets back to school and there are new kids in school - a biker gang of Cajuns? The way the biker gang was treated and seen kind of made me a little uncomfortable. There's a lot of slut shaming and pitting women against each other. Some of the switches back and forth between present and past were a bit confusing. There were some time jumps that were jarring in the past timeline that I didn't care for. I wish I had picked this up back when it was first out so that I could have viewed it from the lens of my more naive self.