The Poisons We Drink

Bethany Baptiste

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05 March 2024

The Poisons We Drink is a potent YA debut about a world where love potions are weaponized against hate and prejudice, sisterhood is unbreakable, and self-love is life and death.

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.

The Poisons We Drink is a potent YA debut about a world where love potions are weaponized against hate and prejudice, sisterhood is unbreakable, and self-love is life and death.

By: Bethany Baptiste
Imprint: Sourcebooks
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 191mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 37mm
Weight: 404g
ISBN: 9781464221323
ISBN 10: 1464221324
Pages: 592
Publication Date: 05 March 2024
Recommended Age: From 14 to 18 years
Audience: Young adult , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Bethany Baptiste is an inner-city educator by day and a young adult SFF novelist by night. If she's not writing a lesson plan or a story, she does retail therapy in Florida bookstores and takes scheduled naps with her three chaotic evil dogs. You can visit her at bethanybaptiste.com or @storysorcery on Twitter.

Reviews for The Poisons We Drink

Bethany's prose is effortlessly lush, vivid, and impactful in this emotional and empowering story of a young Black witcher finding her power in a world intent on destroying it * Sarah Underwood, author of Lies We Sing to the Sea * Thrilling [and] fast-paced...The Poisons We Drink is all female rage, and I’m here for it. * Grimdark Magazine *