Poison

My! I read this book many years ago yet it still sticks with me as one of my favourite books. Whether or not you enjoy a fantasy read or not is irrelevant when it comes to great writing with a strong female lead and lovable characters. 

Author Chris Wooding starts off by painting a world of faeries that live near a mash and are fearful of the marsh flies that tend to gobble unsuspecting faeries up. A teenage girl named Poison who dawns piercing violet eyes, discovers that her baby sister has been replaced with a changeling and sets out on a course to find her. 

This book is filled with adventure, fantasy, lightness and dark. It is located in the young adult section but believe me when I tell you this is an intelligent read with a list of wonderful cast members, Brahm and Peppercorn being my favourite. I can’t remember reading a book in recent time that made me feel this much once I finished reading the very last words. It was a mixture of emotions and really does a wonderful job of telling the story of love, loss, bravery, self-discovery and truth. I will warn you though, the book doesn’t really pick up until the 5^th chapter but from then on out it’s a page turner. 

Do you have an author, that if you could, you would steal their talents? Well Wooding is that author for me. There are several passages that have been highlight because I want to remember them, I admire them and I hope to possess half the talent he is able to showcase. 

"[Humans] have what no other race has: imagination. Any one of us, even the lowliest, can create worlds within ourselves; we can people them with the most extraordinary creatures, the most amazing inventions, the most incredible things. We can live in those worlds ourselves, if we choose; and in our own worlds we can be as we want to be." - Chris Wooding, Poison.  

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