Lies Like Poison

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Lies Like Poison by Chelsea Pitcher was a great YA thriller filled with lots of twists and turns and an easy read and be surprised when the "real" killer is revealed like I was.

All three narrators are unreliable, which certainly boosts the entertainment factor in a murder mystery like this one. So I was pleasantly surprised to find this this is actually a dark, gothic story about two boys, two girls, obsession and family secrets.Belle who is ruthless and fiercely caring, Jack who is protective and loving, Lily who is badass and learning to love herself and Raven who they would all do anything to keep safe. But when he pushed the clear plastic baggie toward her, containing a familiar scrap of paper, that surety slipped away. I just didn’t care after a few chapters in, suddenly I wasn’t as curious to find out who killed her.

During this time, the three girls made a recipe for the perfect murder - a petal of poppy, a petal of belladonna, and a petal of a lily. 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. 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.

I will say everyone is completely respectful of him after and there’s nothing bad that comes to him for being trans but still that’s something I’d check ownvoices reviews about to make sure. If we dropped a petal of belladonna, a petal of poppy, and a petal of lily into that cup, we’d never really know which one of us killed her. So when they discovered he was suffering abuse at the hands of his stepmother, they came up with a lethal plan: petals of poppy, belladonna, and lily in her evening tea so she’d never be able to hurt Raven again. Forced tension, forced drama, a whole convoluted mess with little actual substance and unnecessary romantic intrigue to pad up the pages. And when the tangled web of secrets and betrayal is finally unwound, what lies at its heart will change the group forever.