Poison

by Chris Wooding

When Poison leaves her home in the marshes of Gull to retrieve the infant sister who was snatched by the fairies, she and a group of unusual friends survive encounters with the inhabitants of various Realms, and Poison herself confronts a surprising destiny.

• ISBN10: 0439755700
• ISBN13: 9780439755702
• Publish Date: 1 September 2005 (first published 21 March 2003)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
• Imprint: Orchard Books
• Format: Hardcover
• 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.