The Poison Diaries by Maryrose Wood (based on a concept by The Duchess of Northumberland)
Reading level: Young Adult Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Balzer + Bray; (July 20, 2010) Book synopsis: In the right dose, everything is a poison. Even love. Jessamine Luxton has lived all her sixteen years in an isolated cottage near Alnwick Castle, with little company apart from the plants in her garden. Her father, Thomas, a feared and respected apothecary, has taught her much about the incredible powers of plants: that even the most innocent-looking weed can cure -- or kill. When Jessamine begins to fall in love with a mysterious boy who claims to communicate with plants, she is drawn into the dangerous world of the poison garden in a way she never could have imagined. . . . My review: The power of herbs, a garden of poisonous plants, the blossoming of forbidden love. I was sucked into reading The Poison Diaries by the synopsis alone. Jessamine, 16, has been sheltered growing up the lone child of her cold apothecary father who spends more time with fauna tha