Poison

Poison is the main character of this book. She is a sixteen year old girl who lives in a small village called Gull, in the Black Marshes. She used to be known as Foxglove, but when the time came for her to choose her adult name, she picked Poison. This was out of spite to her stepmother, Snapdragon, who told her that she is like poison to the happiness of the family. Poison resents Snapdragon because she thinks Snapdragon is trying to step into her mother's role. Poison knows that Snapdragon is not necessarily a bad person, but she cannot help being deliberately difficult. Poison knows that it is she who is causing most of the problem. She is capable of being fair to Snapdragon in her head, but she cannot bring herself to be nice. She is depressed by her life in the village; it is too...