Corey’s Reviews > Wicked Roots: Forgotten Folklore and Ancient Myths of Familiar Plants > Status Update

It's also irritating that we've veered away from specific plants so now sections are named shit like "flying ointments" and "rhabdomancy"

"reindeer can also become intoxicated from devouring the plant"

I cannot emphasise enough how much Amanita muscaria is not a plant

Another small beef is that I think you can just say Hebrew Bible or even Torah when talking about specifically the books of Torah from the Tanakh instead of saying "the old testament of the Bible" but that's a beef I have with Christian hegemony and is not this author's fault

Okay yeah these retellings in particular have the vibe of someone who would really rather be writing fiction and like

Girl just do that???

Unfortunately it's also laid out kinda weird just not at all how I would have formatted a book like this

It's got the vibe of someone who wanted to write prose fiction but opted for a nonfiction piece about plants instead

Yew aril are not berries and are actually edible but because the seeds they contain ARE toxic and must be removed without being broken I will concede the point

Unfortunately I don't think I like this author's style

Small beef: mushrooms are not plants