Redmond then forces the poisonous oleander into Thandie's mouth, killing her almost instantly. Redmond holds Thandie at knife point, forcing Bri to retrieve the Absyrtus's Heart plant. Bri is devastated to learn that Karter has been helping her. Karter's mother is trying to steal the heart so that she will become immortal. Eventually, Bri discovers that Marie has been alive for hundreds of years because of receiving an elixir containing Absyrtus's Heart. The mysterious Marie, who lives in an elaborate house, mentions a connection to Bri's family. He seems kind in a clumsy and distracted way.
The plant is in the dark, and its stems and leaves are dark and wilted.īri begins to make some friends around town. Inside, she finds a plant that she had assumed was not real – Absyrtus's Heart. There is a locked room past these poisonous plants, and Bri eventually finds the key that unlocks the door. She has no fear, having already discovered she is immune to poisonous plants of all kinds. Behind a locked fence, Bri finds the Poison Garden with deadly plants such as oleander. Though neglected, the front part of the garden is filled with the typical medicinal garden herbs. The plants clear the way for Bri but attack others who try to reach the garden. She soon discovers a hidden garden behind a gate covered with plants. The house includes a huge room set aside as an apothecary, complete with jars of dried herbs on the shelves.
Though worried about the effect of being in the middle of a forest, Bri and her mothers agree to spend the summer at the house to see if this could be the answer to their financial problems.īri quickly feels a connection to the house and to the many paintings and pictures of people displayed on the walls. Redmond arrives with news that Bri's biological aunt, a woman named Circe Colchis, left Bri a house and 40 acres of land near Rhinebeck in upstate New York. She discovers that they are on the verge of being forced to move to a smaller apartment just when an attorney named Mrs. The plants in her room react to her mood. As she walks down a sidewalk, the trees and plants along the street bend toward her. Bri's life is nothing close to a normal teen's life because she spends a lot of time and energy trying to manage her supernatural power to control plants. Kindle AZW file.Īs the novel opens, Bri Greene is living with her two adoptive mothers, Thandie and Angie, in Brooklyn. Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, NY, 10018, 2021. The following version of the book was used to create this study guide: Bayron, Kalynn.
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