Lies Like Poison

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Between the lies and the secrets and the shady characters, I wasn’t sure who to believe or where to look. Although I hated to see these characters suffer so much from their home lives, it was a good look into how rough some people have it, no matter their social or economic status. So when they discovered he was suffering abuse at the hands of his stepmother, they came up with a lethal plan to stop her from ever hurting Raven again. But while they all felt like they were the best of friends, it turns out there were secrets upon secrets that only carried over into their present day lives.

While this was focused on the murder mystery, it also dealt with mental health and had such amazing queer characters with huge depth to them all. He was wearing a blue blazer and jeans, but she could see his gun poking out beneath the blazer’s hem.Because,” Jack said, and a chill unfurled at the base of Belle’s spine, “even though you’re innocent, you got what you wanted. She wasn’t guilty, she told herself over and over again, but it was hard to believe that with cuffs around her wrists.

They’d do anything to help him, and end up planning to murder his stepmom by steeping a flower from each of their names into her tea—belladonna being fatal. The only believable explanation as to why they didn't sit together and chat is because they suspect each other as being the killer and trying to frame one another. We have Belladonna, Poppy (Jack), Lily, and Raven who we get a perspective of and for the first half of this book they are completely unreliable characters. Riverdale meets Kara Thomas’s The Cheerleaders in this electrifying, twisted thriller about estranged friends who reunite when someone commits the murder they’d planned–but didn’t go through with–and leaves one of their own to take the fall. The fact that the police did neither in both cases and went for the immediate arrest of a teenage girl based on a conveniently placed "murder recipe" left at the scene of the crime .They’d hardly touched over the past few years, and yet, everything was exactly the way it had been the first time they’d held hands. They're all flawed characters, each hiding their own dark secrets and I loved the character growth from when they were children to when they were older teens, and the ending that brings them all together is one of my favourites. Chelsea Pitcher’s Lies Like Poison isn’t due out until later this year, but we’ve got your exclusive first look! Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah Story are cousins, but they barely know each other, and they've never even met their grandmother. Between abusive parents, absent parents, and no parents, most of the boxes were checked on “hard to live with parents”.