TITLE:  The Poisons We Drink
AUTHOR: Bethany Baptiste
PUBLISHER: Sourcebooks Fire
RELEASE DATE: March 5, 2024
GENRES: YA fantasy, magic, witches, LGBTQ+
BUY LINKS:
https://bookshop.org/a/25463/9781728251950

The Poisons We Drink

SYNOPSIS:
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.

My thoughts:

Thank you @turnthepagetours, @sourcebooksfire , @bethany_baptiste for including me on this book tour and the #gifted copy.

This cover is just gorgeous and this book is set in DC with so many different types of magic. There are back stories and history and grudges. There’s power struggles and political machinations always for the self interests not the people.

Venus the fmc can produce love potions for all sorts of reasons but not always romantic, they are compulsions for a love of an idea, familial love, repairing a friendship, or to love something else more to give up an addiction. It’s fascinating cause the one effected if they got more than one can overdose so if the witcher isn’t aware they’ve already been dosed something bad can happen. Also to produce these potions is very painful.

In the midst of the magic there are Witcher vs human protests and fights happening. There is so much happening you really have to pay attention to catch it all.

AUTHOR INFORMATION

Author’s website:  bethanybaptiste.com
Author’s instagram: Instagram.com/bethany_baptiste
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