{"id":24249,"date":"2022-03-15T20:31:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T01:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/?p=24249"},"modified":"2022-06-05T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T16:22:26","slug":"petals-and-poison-jess-dylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/petals-and-poison-jess-dylan\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Petals and Poison, by Jess Dylan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I won a paperback copy of <a href=\"https:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Petals-Poison-Jess-Dylan-ebook\/dp\/B08R2J2ZV9\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3DTQLK8V9MGK2&amp;keywords=petals+and+poisons&amp;qid=1647393866&amp;s=digital-text&amp;sprefix=petals+and+poisons%2Cdigital-text%2C104&amp;sr=1-1\">Petals and Poison<\/a> (by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenniferdavidhesse.com\/index.html\"> Jess Dylan<\/a>) through Goodreads.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24254\" src=\"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/petals-and-poison-cover.jpg\" alt=\"petals and poison cover\" width=\"297\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/petals-and-poison-cover.jpg 212w, http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/petals-and-poison-cover-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><span id=\"freeText10130552682288370215\">Sierra Ravenswood has embraced her role as owner of Flower House floral shop and companion to her former boss&#8217;s pet, Gus the Corgi. Sierra\u2019s team are enjoying their new jobs too. At least until everyone realizes their lack of experience might be contributing to their lack of customers . . .<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sierra decides they need a change in luck, so she creates a special window display featuring lucky bamboo and auspicious flowers. It seems the new arrangement has worked when the shop is flooded with customers the next day, including a van full of college students on a horticulture club field trip. Unfortunately, Sierra doesn&#8217;t notice that the students\u2019 distracted professor has gone missing until Gus&#8217;s urgent barking leads her to the storeroom \u2013 and the body of the unfortunate professor.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With folks now referring to Flower House as \u201cPoison House\u201d and suspects galore, Sierra fears her new business is doomed before it has a chance to get off the ground. Determined to reverse course and see justice served, she sets out to solve the crime and change her luck once more.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>The Flower House is no place <\/b><b>for shrinking violets<\/b>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cdvi-PRfgf4?controls=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18338\" src=\"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/louisianalatte-my-review.png\" alt=\"my review\" width=\"119\" height=\"54\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I made a joke to my husband while reading <i>Petals and Poisons<\/i> that I&#8217;m quite capable of cozying up to a mystery now and again, but I really wish a ghost (or something) would show up. I am much more a fantasy reader than a cozy mystery reader. But I entered into <i>Petals and Poisons<\/i> with optimism. There&#8217;s a dog in it, after all.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I thought it was cute. I couldn&#8217;t guess, between the suspects, which would turn out to be the killer. And I liked the budding romantic subplot. However, I also found it odd that Sierra and crew were able to go about investigating, as they did, with no push-back from the actual police for interfering. I also thought the ending felt rush. It wrapped up so fast, once the killer was revealed. Further, I feel like Dylan allowed the reader to care about them, there at the end, and then just abandoned them to their fate. I wanted to know what happened to them and to hope there was a somewhat happy ending for them in the future. (I&#8217;ve actually written one in my head for them.)<\/p>\n<p>All in all, I enjoyed it well enough for being outside my normal generic comfort zone. But hey, I maybe got my wish. There <i>were<\/i> some maybe ghosts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24252 \" src=\"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/petals-and-poison-photo-261x300.png\" alt=\"petals and poison photo\" width=\"184\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/petals-and-poison-photo-261x300.png 261w, http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/petals-and-poison-photo-892x1024.png 892w, http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/petals-and-poison-photo-768x881.png 768w, http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/petals-and-poison-photo-624x716.png 624w, http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/petals-and-poison-photo.png 1138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Other Reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"LZ5IgNDZ1p\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.undinereads.com\/petals-and-poison-by-jess-dylan\/\">Petals and Poison by Jess Dylan<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Petals and Poison by Jess Dylan&#8221; &#8212; Undine Reads\" src=\"https:\/\/www.undinereads.com\/petals-and-poison-by-jess-dylan\/embed\/#?secret=803EbojmiP#?secret=LZ5IgNDZ1p\" data-secret=\"LZ5IgNDZ1p\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bibliophileandavidreader.blogspot.com\/2021\/12\/petals-and-poison-by-jess-dylan.html\">Bibliophile and Avid Reader: Petals and Poison, by Jess Dylan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won a paperback copy of Petals and Poison (by Jess Dylan) through Goodreads. Sierra Ravenswood has embraced her role as owner of Flower House floral shop and companion to her former boss&#8217;s pet, Gus the Corgi. Sierra\u2019s team are enjoying their new jobs too. At least until everyone realizes their lack of experience might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[231,347,2501,567,98,1953,152],"class_list":["post-24249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booksbook-review","tag-book-review","tag-cozy-mystery","tag-jess-dylan","tag-murder-mystery","tag-mystery","tag-st-martins-press","tag-won"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24249"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24702,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24249\/revisions\/24702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}