(Honestly? Not as hard as I might have liked, but too much more would have made for a different story.) It’s a magical book filled with fierce Black female characters, and Bayron writes them all with a variety that’s laudable. Where This Poison Heart merely hints at the mythology surrounding Bri’s birth family, This Wicked Heart leans much harder into it. (For those of you wondering how the age difference works out, let’s just say there’s a fix for that by the end of the book.) There’s even less time to focus on relationships in This Wicked Fate, what with the rush to meet Hecate’s deadline, but the swoon between Bri and Marie is still sweet.

So you bet she gets an upgraded BFF Charm this time around.

That said, she’s a brilliant, insanely strong young woman, and if anyone can figure out how to make the impossible happen, it’s her. She didn’t ask to be thrown into the situation she finds herself in, and it’s taken a toll. My heart broke for Bri at the end of This Poison Heart, and since This Wicked Fate picks up right after, neither of us had time to really regroup and start to heal. Her aunt, Circe, is back from the dead and isn’t at all happy that Bri is wrapped up in the family drama.īri’s barely holding it together, but she knows that she’ll do whatever it takes to meet Hecate’s deadline and get her mom back, even if it seems like an impossible task. Redmond, Hecate and her dog appeared and gave Bri a month to bring all of the pieces of the Absytrus Heart together. Karter and his mother have betrayed her, forcing her to create the Living Elixer and killing her mom. Her addition is a tad bit deceptive because, to me, it indicates that Marie becomes a main character in this book (she doesn’t), but the cover is no less powerful because of that.īriseis is reeling. This cover is equally as good as the cover of the first book, and the addition of Marie standing behind/alongside Bri makes it doubly lovely they’re both super pretty. If you’re caught up, however, feel free to continue below. If you have not read the first book in this series ( This Poison Heart ), man your battle stations turn away now, as there might be spoilers in this review. Red alert! This Wicked Fate is the second book in the This Poison Heart duology. Bonus Factors: Gods and Goddesses, Treasure Hunt

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