3.75 Stars

Poison is the retold story of the fairytale Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. At first, this didn't seem too different from the original story we know as Snow White. There was a King and Queen, a step-mother who despised her step-daughter, Snow White with pale skin and dark hair and dwarves who were her friends. Most of this story was told through Snow's stepmother Lilith's point of view (whose granny is the witch in the gingerbread house fyi) and that was pretty interesting. She seemed to struggle a lot between good and evil with evil normally winning but there were glimpses of her when the reader could see her regret at her own actions. Things took a complete turnaround once I thought happily ever after was after coming to Snow and I was a bit speechless at the dark twist. I guess these are fairytales when there isn't a happily every after...