Briseis is adopted and living happily, albeit maybe not so affluently with her mothers. They run a flower shop that relies on Brisies’s special talent with plants. They can’t quite explain it and know enough to keep it secret but it’s barely helping them scrape by. On the summer of Briseis’s 17th year, they are contacted, learning she is to inherit a mysterious estate in update NY. They decide to take a chance and move there for the summer to sort out what this inheritance might mean. Queue a set of mysterious letters and keys that lead them to the house with its apothecary shop and locked gardens. The truth of Brises’s parentage is revealed as is some of the basis of her magic.
What a refreshing, fun and intense modern take on mythology. I loved that we got characters from traditional Greek myths that were not only present and important in modern times, but also that were Black. I adored the botany and the world building of the magic that was understandable and intriguing but hinted at so much more. I appreciated that several major mysteries were solved and yet we got a good cliffhanger. I maybe wasn’t so mad at this one because I waited until the second book was out to read…
What are you reading going into the weekend?
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