Poison

by Chris Wooding

Poison is a gripping and malevolent tale from master storyteller Chris Wooding. Enter a world where humans are the vermin; a gruesome, nightmarish land of malicious tricksters and evil disguised as beauty. This is no phaerie tale...

• ISBN10: 0439755719
• ISBN13: 9780439755719
• Publish Date: 1 September 2006 (first published 21 March 2003)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Scholastic US
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 288
• Language: English

Reviews

[celinenyx]

The first thing that you notice when you start this book, is the main characters name, Poison. Wooding was very clever in choosing this name, 'cause as a little girl that name had an incredible attraction to me. Poison is different. In the town where she is born people, well they just die. They fall in the water or get attacked by the many monsters that lurk around the lake. The people mourn the deceased, but do nothing to prevent it. They don't move away and life stays the same.

Then rebellious Poison decides to leave. And then a fairy-tale like voyage starts.

I absolutely loved this book. It is very smooth written and doesn't feel childish. Great read for both children and adults with a lot of imagination.

I loved this book but I was also majorly creeped out by it. The idea of being manipulated by a writer of the story..ugh. But it was very well written and very imaginative. There was a creepy fairytale mood which persisted through the tale and the main character, Poison was interesting and I grew to really admire her. Great read.