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Love potions are 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.
When 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 DC's most influential politicians in order to pass legislation that will protect witchers for years to come.
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 debut about a world where love potions are weaponized against hate and prejudice, sisterhood is unbreakable, and self-love is life and death.
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9798891784376
- File size: 463774 KB
- Duration: 16:06:11
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- English
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Reviews
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December 18, 2023
In Baptiste’s fantastical debut, a teen seeking justice for her mother’s murder must navigate the crooked politics of Washington, D.C. Venus Stoneheart is a Witcher—a magical offshoot of humans who are discriminated against and marginalized by human-run society—who brews illegal love potions to support her family. Following her mother’s death, Venus becomes responsible for her impetuous younger sister, Janus. But Venus is soon embroiled in trouble of her own, forcing her down a path that she’s certain will only lead to her destruction. The Grand Witcher is offering Venus the opportunity to take revenge against her mother’s killer. The only thing she asks in return is for Venus to brew dangerous potions for a new set of clientele: local politicians. Through Venus’s dark yet tenacious perspective and the skillful, understated worldbuilding, Baptiste presents a fresh take on magic systems to deliver a searing critique of power, politics, and injustice. Flawed characters are rendered with nuance and complexity, elements especially evident in the mother-daughter and sister relationships at the core of this thought-provoking story. Major characters cue as Black. Ages 14–up. Agent: John Cusick, Folio Literary. -
Narrator Lynnette R. Freeman's creative voice work pulls listeners deep into a world in which witchers, people with magical abilities, are systematically oppressed. Eighteen-year-old Venus, a witcher and potion brewer, joins a dangerous plot to stop a witcher registration law. Freeman deploys a plethora of voices as Venus infiltrates political circles with help from her family. Freeman's voice is mature and resolute when portraying Venus's watchful aunt and uncle; Freeman deftly switches to younger, more impulsive voices when portraying Venus's loyal sister and cousin. Venus is constantly taunted by the sentient dark magic living inside her, and Freeman creates a hissing guttural voice for this entity. Her chilling performance makes this audio worth a listen. J.E.C. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine
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