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Poison Priestess

(Lady Slayers #2)

Lana Popović (Goodreads Author)

3.75 · Rating details · 4 ratings · 4 reviews

Book 2 in the Lady Slayers series, about French murderess and fortune teller Catherine Monvoisin

In 17th-century Paris, 19-year-old Catherine Monvoisin is a well-heeled jeweler’s wife with a peculiar taste for the arcane. She lives a comfortable life, far removed from a childhood of abject destitution—until her kind spendthrift of a husband lands them both in debt. Hell-ben ...more

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May 08, 2020 Samm | Sassenach the Book Wizard marked it as to-read · review of another edition

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Sep 14, 2020 Ro rated it it was ok

I thank Edelweiss+ and the publisher for providing me an ARC of this novel.

Actual rate: 2.25 stars

Well, I'm not going to lie, I'm a bit disappointed.
I read the precedent novel of this series in January, and I remember highly enjoying because it served a thrilling Historical novel that easily fit in the Horror genre too, and an interesting sapphic relationship that is not your usual YA wlw sOfT instalove. I truly remember thinking how refreshing I found that book, and I still consider it one of m I thank Edelweiss+ and the publisher for providing me an ARC of this novel.

Actual rate: 2.25 stars

Well, I'm not going to lie, I'm a bit disappointed.
I read the precedent novel of this series in January, and I remember highly enjoying because it served a thrilling Historical novel that easily fit in the Horror genre too, and an interesting sapphic relationship that is not your usual YA wlw sOfT instalove. I truly remember thinking how refreshing I found that book, and I still consider it one of my favourite 2020 reads.
This one, sadly, felt like the opposite to me.
The biggest problem for me is that it felt like this novel was nervously improvised rather than carefully written and planned. It was like someone yelled at the author "write me a novel based on X in three days" and the author could do nothing but put some scraps together. All the elements in the novel, from the plot to the singular scenes to the narration itself didn't feel cohesive, it's all so randomly put all over the place. The characters were flat, I couldn't perceive their personalities, their ideals nor their emotions. The relationships didn't make any sense, one day Catherine was talking about her feelings for her best friend then the next day she makes out with a boy she has randomly met and so begins an insta-love story that has hasn't a clear start nor end. The plot wasn't linear, and if you told me to resume it I wouldn't know where to start. The "magic" element was never explained, it just existed, and the moments that were supposed to be "magical" were so incredibly lackluster I often skipped them. There was no real internal debate if using poisons and potions was accetable or not, beacuse I had no idea of what was the protagonist's desire to do with her life. The writing style didn't help either, it felt very choppy and my brain could barely understand what I was reading, and the dialogue was often cringe and unrealistic, especially considering that this is a Historical novel.
Overall I think that this story, as a concept, had potential but it needed a few alterations: first of all, it would have been more interesting if there was no real divination, and Catherine was a just a human "witch" with knowledge of herbs and maybe using a few cheap charlatan tricks. Then it definitely needed to be worked on for more time, carefully planning the development of the story.

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Sep 29, 2020 Jessica rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This was a atmospheric and dark historic fiction about the cost of getting what you want. I really enjoyed the story line and the plot, and I thought the climax was quite well done, however I wish there had been slightly more emotion at some points in the book. The characters were diverse and interesting and this plot was based on actual historic characters. This is historic fiction so it takes many liberties with the way their actual lives unfolded but it was an enjoyable read.

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I never thought this would be a serieees! I'm so excited, I hope it lives up to Blood Countess, counting the days to get my hands on this bad boy <3 ...more

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Lana Popović's debut YA contemporary fantasy, WICKED LIKE A WILDFIRE, was published by Katherine Tegen Books/HarperCollins in August 2017. Lana studied psychology and literature at Yale University, and law at Boston University. She is a graduate of the Emerson College Publishing and Writing program and works as a literary agent with Chalberg & Sussman, specializing in YA.

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