A Taste for poison is information -dense and conversational in style. I really enjoyed the anecdotal examples given for the different poisons' historical uses both in medicine and with malicious intent. I didn't know that the Curies' daughter was a victim of their radiation experiments. Some of the more recent examples of misuse of these poisons were unexpectedly upsetting because the incidents were geographically near to where I live and happened in a time in which I was alive. I enjoyed the conversational tone of the book, but I don't feel like I retained as much as I wanted to with a single read through. The organization of the contents is better suited to a few further readings if this were something I wanted to use as a source in future research.