Lies Like Poison

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If we dropped a petal of belladonna, a petal of poppy, and a petal of lily into that cup, we’d never really know which one of us killed her. The dynamic between Raven and Jack made my heart melt, while Belladonna and Lily’s chemistry got my heart pumping for similar reasons. Then let’s hope you have an alibi, he said, gesturing to the gaggle of officers standing by the door. Later in life, the step mother is killed and it is with the flower Belladonna, which was part of the plan years ago. Lily, Jack, Belladonna and Raven are fierce, stubborn and loyal, ready to do anything to defend their own family and each other.

We see them overcome what society expects them to be and being their own person, and they all have a story to tell in this book. I felt the story was woven with queer coding and with overall themes that are inextricably linked to the queer experience. This felt someone was grasping onto 100 different length and weighted threads and aggressively poking them here, there and everywhere to create a rustic and holey floor rug. Then let’s hope you have an alibi,” he said, gesturing to the gaggle of officers standing by the door.Raven, Lily, Poppy (who goes by Jack) and Belladonna’s friendship is in such a strained place when the book kicks off, making it really intriguing when more snippets of their past together gets revealed. Full of plot twists, confessions, lies, flashbacks and POVs swinging back and forth, Chelsea Pitcher created an intense story, with wonderful and complex character, each of them with their problems, secrets and lies, after being separated for three years. This was where we really saw the soft queer found family content I had been craving, and more of my favourite characters. Riverdale meets Kara Thomas's The Cheerleaders in this electrifying, twisted thriller about estranged friends who reunite when someone commits the murder they'd planned--but didn't go through with--and leaves one of their own to take the fall. I was expecting this story to be much like the many other murder mystery books I've read, with contemporary characters and high school secrets.

ChildEach of them did have secrets they were holding onto, things they had done wrong in their lives, but finding the big secret, who killed Evelyn, was the hard part. If any of the parents in this book were just the tiniest bit responsible or even, I dunno, mature, so many things would never have taken place.

Between abusive parents, absent parents, and no parents, most of the boxes were checked on “hard to live with parents”.Either way, the central focus was on these teens and their journey towards finding family in one another, so I hardly noticed the faults in the plot. The plots and ideas are just so good and I really really want to love them but something in the execution seems to keep falling flat. Because,” Jack said, and a chill unfurled at the base of Belle’s spine, “even though you’re innocent, you got what you wanted.