A review by queer_futomaki
Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities by Amy Stewart, Briony Morrow-Cribbs, Jonathon Rosen

2.0

This book read like a catalog of plants, maybe something was lost in the ebook version. I was hoping for longer stories about the plants and a deeper dive into their history. Each entry was pretty short and read more like a plant ID book than a narrative. I wanted the historical stories about the plants to be deeper, hardly a paragraph was spent tell how plants had killed in the past. It was more like sharing a fun fact than telling a story.

The cover is beautiful and this would make a good coffee table or bathroom book. It suits being pick up for 3 mins to read a single entry without any context. I read it from start to end over a few days and it didn't hold my attention.