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Poison Princess by Kresley Cole

Teen Book Club

Poison Princess Discussion Questions

1. What do you think the 1st person narration?
2. What do you think of the Prologue and its 1^st person narration?
3. Did it make you want to read the book?
4. Does it feel like a Criminal Minds episode, post-apocalyptic edition?
5. Do you like Evie?
6. From the beginning do you think there was more to her hallucinations?
7. Does her house, Haven House sound cool?
8. What do you think of Jackson at the beginning?
9. Is Evie’s surprise birthday party interesting?
10. Does it seem like a teen movie?
11. Are you surprised that Jackson and his friends stole everyone’s phones and wallets?
12. What did you think of the Flash, was it disconcerting when it flipped back to Evie telling the story to the serial killer?
13. Does it make sense that Evie feels useless after the apocalypse?
14. Would most people be useless in that situation?
15. What do you think of Evie’s ability to farm with her blood?
16. Were you surprised that Jackson made it?
17. Is Evie an idiot to even consider the militia as help?
18. Is Evie’s mom right to try to set her up with Jackson?
19. Was Evie’s mom’s death unexpected?
20. What do you think of Evie being the Empress?
21. Do you think being on the road together after an apocalypse would create a sense of instant intimacy?
22. Do you agree that women help to civilize the world and with few women, things devolve more quickly?
23. Who is scarier Bagmen, slavers or the militia?
24. Would you ever want your emotions to be obvious by your scent?
25. What do you think of Selena? (the moon)
26. In spite of her own pain over Jackson, Evie decides to go to Matthew, what do you think of her decision?
27. What do you think of Matthew?
28. What do you think of Finn?
29. Are you familiar with the Tarot cards and how the Major Arcana work?
30. Evie dreams she is the Red Witch and the dreams are in italics, do these sequences work?
31. What do you think when we return to Evie at Arthur’s house?
32. Is Arthur, the Hermit, really what changed Evie?
33. Did you like the book?
34. Would you read more in the series?