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The Poisons We Drink
By Bethany Baptiste
YA Fantasy
480 Pages
Sourcebooks Fire
March 5, 2024
In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family.
Love potions is a dangerous business. Brewing has painful, debilitating side effects, and getting caught means death or a prison sentence. But what Venus is most afraid of is the dark, sentient magic within her.
Then an enemy’s iron bullet kills her mother, Venus’s life implodes. Keeping her reckless little sister Janus safe is now her responsibility. When the powerful Grand Witcher, the ruthless head of her coven, offers Venus the chance to punish her mother’s killer, she has to pay a steep price for revenge. The cost? Brew poisonous potions to enslave D.C.’s most influential politicians.
As Venus crawls deeper into the corrupt underbelly of her city, the line between magic and power blurs, and it’s hard to tell who to trust…Herself included.
My Review
I can’t believe this is a debut! The world building was phenomenal for a young adult book. Venus is an exceptional character who’s willing to do anything to take care of her family. I love the family aspect. Secret societies, a bit of romance and you’ve got a stellar performance. The pacing was good, there were a few spots that seemed a bit slow, but it took nothing away from this story. Bethany did an amazing job and has found a fan for life.
Bethany Baptiste is a preschool inclusion specialist by day and a young adult SFF novelist by night. If she’s not writing an inclusion support plan or a story, she does retail therapy in Florida bookstores and takes scheduled naps with her three chaotic evil dogs.
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