Cyan Toxin (Mixologists and Pirates, book 4)
By Frost Kay
Blurb:
Fact 645 - High heels make great weapons.
Somehow, Allie always managed to attract every sociopath within a 100 click radius. Don't ask her how she did it. She chalked it up to the unlucky curse that had plagued her all her life. And Sloven the Slayer was no different. Creepy was his middle name. Luckily, her mama had taught her the advantage of a well placed kick.
Fact 792 - Allie hated liars, especially gorgeous ones of the male variety.
After the attempt on her life and her team's betrayal, she tried to go back to her life, to ignore how lonely she was, to forget the nightmares that plagued her and the face of the one man she still wanted despite his lies. But life was never that simple.
Fact 864 - Good doesn't always triumph. Sometimes evil just slaps you in the face and steals your popsicle.
It was just one lie.
This book started straight after the ending of book 3. Which is when we discovered that Blade wasn't who we thought he was. This was a great twist to the series and I was not expecting it at all, it changes the whole out look on the book now as you start to question who he really is and what part he has had within the story. It is obvious though that Blades feelings for Allie are true though and he does still care for her no matter that she now knows who he really is.
The moonshine is complete and Allie is at the party ready to administrate it to the King. I love how Allie believes in herself that she can attract someone just with her confidence and personality rather than the clothes everyone expects her to wear. This shows that it's not really clothes that make a person attractive it's the way a person holds themselves and how they feel about their body that grabs other people's attention. This is great for Frost to put across in her book because in my opinion it shows she values a persons personality a lot more.
Within this book there are scenes of abuse towards women so if this is a trigger for you then it is best not to read it. There is also post traumatic stress disorder signs throughout the book. For these two things to be mentioned within the book is great, as it acknowledges the fact that these happen in the real world and that mental health problems do exist as many people just turn a blind eye to them when they should be acknowledged.
Towards the end of the book we discover who Allie's friends really are. It's quite upsetting to be honest to discover the people she had become so close to she doesn't want to know anymore because they betrayed her. But then at the same time they were still there for her even though they lied so I'm not too sure how I'd react if those were my friends.
Allie's character has developed so much throughout the series and she has become such a strong female lead I wasn't really expecting. Her friend Jer doesn't really make much of an appearance sadly throughout the series, not as much as I'd like.
Once again this book ended in a cliffhanger but it is so worth the read and it's only a month till the next one comes out so I can forgive Frost for this.
Favourite Character: Allie Sae
Read: 15/01/19 - 16/01/19
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