librarianryan 's review for:

Poison Ivy: Thorns by Kody Keplinger
4.0
challenging dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This new look at Poison Ivy‘s origins introduces  her father,  her friend or her friend, and her extremely sick mom. What I liked about this book was the content warnings for incest, rape, and abuse. Now you don’t have a lot of that in the book however the book is entirely an allegory for all of those things and there are resources for people that need it at the back.  This very dark and of course poison ivy is a villain so it should have a dark origin story but it’s very well done andI can’t wait to see how the story goes forward from here.