Week 13 Review: The Poisons We Drink

From Goodreads:

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.

The Poisons We Drink is a potent YA debut about a world where love potions are weaponized against hate and prejudice, sisterhood is unbreakable, and self-love is life and death.

My Review:
Oh, I loved reading this book! The synopsis sounded really entertaining, and this book fulfilled that promise, reading this book was just wonderful! This world of love potions and humans and witchers was so entertaining to read more of! 

I felt really badly for Venus, she brews these potions, but she has to deal with the side effects. Then her mom is killed, and she's pulled into these politics of taking control of D.C. It was pretty awful, and it sucks that she was put in that position! 

How the magic works with the potions and such was really interesting to read about! Venus's type with the potions and the different emotions and bonds it can create, for good and bad, I wanted to learn more, about how it works, how it can be used. 

I was thinking that this book would evoke my emotions, and it did! With the situation that she was in, the unfairness of the world with people trying to tighten control of magic users, I just raged against it, and I was hoping by the end that it would be a better world, and yeah, I think it is, even just for Venus to have grown and changed from the events of this book. 

Loved reading this book and I can't wait to read more by Bethany Baptiste! 

Author: Bethany Baptiste
Read: March 26th, 2024
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a DAC Book, SAC 2024 Book and a WoW Book! 
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Published: March 5th 2024

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars