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4 🌟This new look at Poison Ivy‘s origins introduces her father, her friend or her friend, and her extremely sick mom. What I liked about this book was the content warnings for incest, rape, and abuse. Now you don‘t have a lot of that in the book however the book is entirely an allegory for all of those things and there are resources for people that need it at the back.

That was good! Sad, though. Pamela has a sad history with her parents and is treated poorly by her peers. Love that she‘s so eco-friendly and how that informs her future villainous self, despite coming from innocent origins. I enjoy origin stories of villains, and this was a well-done teen version. Also love that the authors included this page at the end of the story, given that these themes are present in the graphic novel.

LGBTQ themes (F/F) in this novel made me smile. I loved the budding friendship and the complications of differing morals. Pamela/Ivy is absolutely a morally grey character, but after reading this story it‘s hard not to sympathize with her choices.