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Not Your Average Secret Garden

The Poison Diaries- Maryrose Wood

The Poison Diaries reads like an old Grimm Brother’s fairy tale, only you don’t get that sense of good triumphing evil at the end or at least, not yet.  With the Gothic monastic setting, the paranormal element, the romantic hero, and the damsel who finds herself in distress, the Poison Diaries was a perfectly creepy read for those looking for something a bit dark and unnerving. I won’t look at plants the same way again, that’s for sure.  At times it reminded me of a shorter, less historical version of Jonathan Strange and Dr. Norrel in plot with the reflective elements from The Name of the Rose on intellectual pride and the danger of the quest for knowledge for power’s sake.  Nightshade, the second book is out now.

Overall: A

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