REVIEW: THIS POISON HEART and THIS WICKED FATE by Kalynn Bayron

With a brilliant and strong female lead, This Poison Heart is about learning who you are and owning it. Briseis is a bisexual teenage girl struggling to understand her mysterious plant powers with the support of her moms. This captivating mystery novel begins following the untimely deaths of Briseis’ birth family and a suspicious property inheritance. 

Having financial troubles with their flower store, Bri and her moms move into her birth mother’s property. The old house is surrounded by gardens hiding rare, deadly plants. There Bri discovers that she is not only immune to the most toxic plants on the planet, she can also control them. As strange people start to show up at her house, Bri and her new friends discover the link she has to the Greek Gods of old.

The newly released sequel This Wicked Fate picks up from the first book’s jaw-dropping cliffhanger, continuing the mysterious link Bri has with the Greek Gods.

This Wicked Fate develops several LGBTQ relationships introduced in the first novel. Briseis has to suddenly learn to navigate fate, love, and death to save those closest to her from a perilous end.  

This duology is a must read for lovers of mystery, botany, and magic.

This Poison Heart, This Wicked Fate by Kalynn Bayron