The Poison Diaries – Nightshade By MaryRose Wood with the Duchess of Northumberland.
Description (Amazon):- A dark, gothic tale of romance… and murder.
The latest book in the grippingly dark series, The Poison Diaries.
Our heroine, Jessamine, has lost her faith in the men she loved, and her innocence as well. She turns to the dark side and plots to kill her father, using his own poisons, before becoming an assassin, a poisoner for hire. Can she recover from her heartache and reunite with her true love, Weed? Find out in this thrilling story where poisons, darkness and horror are a part of everyday life, and love is the only cure.
Review:- Where to start? Wow, I really was expecting it to carry on from where the first book in the Poison Diaries trilogy, the Poison Diaries left off with Jessamine recovering from her illness and carrying on looking after the gardens and her father. Not forgetting pining over Weed. Maybe running away to find out. Well it didn’t quite start like that, it did start right after where book 1 left off, however this book became darker than I could ever have imagined.
The prince of poisons, Oleander, was filling Jessamine’s mind, who was she to argue. I loved booked 1, I loved everything about it, you can read my review, I loved the setting, the characters and the garden. Jessamine was innocent and naive in the last book, she was still a little naive but she was far from innocent. She is a lot more confident about herself in the book and crossed over to the dark side. After what happened back at the Abbey we follow Jessamine around on her travels.
The narration changed to Weed at times which was nice and we got to get inside his mind and find out how he was trying to find Jessamine. Talking to the plants along the way. However Oleander, is playing with her emotions, will he help her find her way to her one true love.
The ending was just wow, what an ending. I have to read book 3 as soon as. It will leave you gasping for more and staring a blank page, wishing for words to appear.
One thing I missed was more of the gardens being in. Don’t get me wrong there are still plenty of plants in there to keep me going. I also wished there was more Jessamine and Weed time together, there just wasn’t enough of that in this book. Fingers crossed for book 3.
I would highly recommend this series. Its dark and gothic, with a great romance. This book was one fast paced, exciting ride from start to finish. It was dark and twisted and I loved it. This is a real page turner.
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Disclaimer:- I was given a copy of Nightshade prior to it’s release to read and write and honest review, which I have done above.
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