A review by elephant
A Fierce and Subtle Poison by Samantha Mabry

3.0

Seventeen year old Lucas spends his summers in Puerto Rico with his father, who is a real estate developer building island resorts. He has heard stories about a mysterious green girl and after his girlfriend dies, he receives a note from Isabel, a girl whose blood is poison. That part reminded me a bit of the book The Night Garden, which is also about a woman who has absorbed toxins from poisonous plants and cannot live without them, but is toxic to other people. Lucas's girlfriend is not the first girl to disappear on the island and now he is caught in the mystery, as a suspect. I received this book free to review from Netgalley.