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A review by ohyouread
The Poison Season by Mara Rutherford
5.0
The Poison Season gave me all the feelings of M Night Shyamalan’s The Village, but with ✨MAGIC✨!!! I am in love with this world and can’t wait to reread/listen once the audiobook is released. I didn’t know I needed them, but give me Forest Sirens and I will always say YASSSS!!!
The inhabitants of Endla are surrounded by water that’s poisonous to the touch: no animal can land in it, no boat can cross it, no humans can get in… or out. That’s exactly the way the wandering forest likes it. The forest and humans that live among it have a symbiotic relationship. Endlans sing music that bring animals to the island and while some may be for them to survive, the rest are killed in sacrifice.
I can’t imagine what it would be like to never be able to leave the island. Told that if you do, the music inside of you will never be able to be released again. Their fear of outsiders really motivated this story. Anyone not of their people was to be IMMEDIATELY killed in sacrifice to suffice the blood hungry forest. That right there sounds like foreshadowing if I’ve ever read it!
There was definitely a build up throughout, knowing that a secret was going to be revealed the entire time. Something was off with all of the rules and stories, but did I expect what happened? Not in the least!!! Am I going to tell you anything that will spoil this? Also, not gonna happen!
The inhabitants of Endla are surrounded by water that’s poisonous to the touch: no animal can land in it, no boat can cross it, no humans can get in… or out. That’s exactly the way the wandering forest likes it. The forest and humans that live among it have a symbiotic relationship. Endlans sing music that bring animals to the island and while some may be for them to survive, the rest are killed in sacrifice.
I can’t imagine what it would be like to never be able to leave the island. Told that if you do, the music inside of you will never be able to be released again. Their fear of outsiders really motivated this story. Anyone not of their people was to be IMMEDIATELY killed in sacrifice to suffice the blood hungry forest. That right there sounds like foreshadowing if I’ve ever read it!
There was definitely a build up throughout, knowing that a secret was going to be revealed the entire time. Something was off with all of the rules and stories, but did I expect what happened? Not in the least!!! Am I going to tell you anything that will spoil this? Also, not gonna happen!