Rating: 1.5/5 
 ***Minor spoilers*** 
 This book wasn't very high up on my TBR list. I only decided to read this one because I needed it for a category in a reading challenge. I haven't heard anything about this book being amazing, but since it is about a 4/5 rating on Goodreads I went in expecting it to be good. Unfortunately, I didn't think it was. 
 Poison Princess is told from the perspective of Evie, who we can assume is the "Poison Princess" but we never get an affirmation of such until the end of the book. She is just returning from a summer in a mental institution her mother sent her to because she was hearing voices, having visions, and drawing questionable apocalyptic-like sketches. Shortly after school starts, the Flash takes place. Most of the world's women are wiped out, everything is dry, zombies roam, and food is scarce. But the thing is, Evie saw this in a vision - she just never believed it to be true. 
 I had quite a few issues with this book. Evie is made out to be prim and proper, rich, conservative, the perfect individual, and friends with everyone - basically, one of the most boring types of protagonists you can get. I don't have anything against people that are like that in real life, but I just don't want to read about it in a novel. On top of that, she was ALWAYS the damsel in distress. She needed Jackson, a Cajun boy she met at school, to hold her hand through everything. Jackson always instructs Evie to stick with him, and he tells her that he'll take care of her and she'll be dead without him. I desperately wanted her to say SOMETHING, but she didn't, probably because it's true. 
 Jackson. Jackson, Jackson, Jackson. Why did you have to be such an asshole? He had ridiculous mood swings and would go from "Evie, I don't want to be without you. We can be together. I'll take care of you." to "Evie, you're ridiculously useless. You're dead weight, and you just suck up our food. I should just leave you." A lot of the time, he comes across as some horny teenager who acts nice so they can get into someone's pants. 
 Evie's visions didn't interest me at all, and that's all the excitement we get for the majority of the book. They would've been more interesting if we got more of an explanation. Since Evie is in the dark for basically the whole book, so are we. I hated that. I didn't want to keep reading mainly because we get no explanation or backstory for Evie's abilities. Once again, she doesn't understand them, so neither do we. The majority of what she knows is that her hallucinations are muted when she's touching Jackson, as if she needs more reason to cling to him. 
 Overall, this book was pretty frustrating for me. I wasn't interested in the characters or the story, which leaves me with basically nothing else for enjoyment. I would only recommend this book to you if you are okay with being in the dark for almost the entire book. If you took that away, it would be great to me - the apocalypse, visions, mysterious powers, people with different abilities. This just didn't do it for me, but if you're okay with lack of information, you may have better luck.