Poison, by Chris Wooding, is a gothic phaerie tale of the adventures of a violet eyed girl named Poison.Poison is sullen, moody and stubborn girl, but you have to be to survive in the Black Marshes where she lives. Although she has never been to the outside world, she dreams of something more than the life she lives. Poison’s sister Azalea is stolen in the night by phaeries and a changeling left in her place. When Poison wakes to discover her sister is gone she sets out into the unknown world to retrieve her.Poison’s one friend and confidant Fleet equips her with the knowledge and money she will need to make it to the Phaerie Lords Realm.By the time Poison confronts the Phaerie Lord she has assembled a group of friends that have helped her through the already complicated journey. The plot twists and turns to reveal a surprising ending that Poison herself has a hard time believing.Chris Wooding transports his readers outside the Realm of Man and into the unpredictable Realms of beyond. You will relish in the adventures of Poison and come to understand the Poison is the hero in her own phaerie tale. ( )

a very dark fairytale, in which Poisons baby sister is swapped for a changeling. She then embarks on a journey to save her sister from the phaeries in a twisted world of witches and spider goddesses and forgotten stories, only to discover a huge secret that changes her whole life. ( )

I absolutely loved it! The cover(the purple face one) is awesome and thrills me when I see it. The story is so strange, like a perverse fairy tail. Of course that is probably what a phaerie tail is. I recommend this to ones who do not mind weird fairy tails that have been warped into slightly scary and yet exciting tales of magic, danger and a quest for a lost sister. In the end though, even that quest changes a bit, until it becomes something much bigger, something that will decide the fate of all the Realms. Check it out, it rules! ( )

Poison is the gripping tale of a girl called Poison who after a dreaded event sets out to find her sister, which the Phaeries had snatched. She uncoils a plot the lords of the realms have to overthrow the Hierophant, the most powerful lord. She goes through twists and turns that eventually help her figure out her ture meaning in life.
Poison is a must read!! Once you've started you won't be able to stop!
Review by: Hannah ( )

Poison is a twisted fairytale fantasy about one girl’s journey to reclaim her stolen infant sister. To do so she has to enter a world where humans are the lowest form of vermin, where a murderous pantheon of demigods plot and scheme to overthrow one another, and where someone is planning to do away with humankind altogether. But not before everything she knows as reality is turned upside down. It was not as good as I thought it would be. It was too slow. ( )