Rating: 💙 💙 💙 💙 💙 “Recovery is not for people who need it; it’s for people who want it.” Poison Laced Truths gave me all the feels – I’m still not okay with this series being over. The In Vein series absolutely wrecked me, but in the best way possible. This book felt drastically different from the other books in the series; however, that’s okay, because it definitely needed to be different in order to wrap up everything. Poison Laced Truths starts out not too long after Heroin Stained Hearts ends. “I pretend like I don’t care how he is or how he’s doing, but when their voices go quiet, I listen harder. I do care, because I still love him and that’s the poison laced truth.” Hadley still loves Ander, despite what he put her through. By the end of Heroin Stained Hearts, she gets a backbone and kicks him to the curb, quite literally. It needed to happen and Ander is FINALLY going to get the actual help that he needs not because other’s want him to but because HE wants to. “I should have just let her in… I should have been honest.” Ander realizes that if he had talked to Hadley about his problems, his addiction, things may not have gone in the direction that they did. If he’d been honest with anyone about what he was dealing with, his life may not have ended up how it had. “Ander finally decided to save himself.” “I let him go and he was slowly making his way back to me, one small step at a time.” Ander finally gets cleaned. He has his life back. He has his Hadley back. He has a future. There’s a little something extra he has, too, but you’ll have to read this book to find out what that is. He has everything we’ve been waiting for him to have. My once broken heart has been put back together, again. There’s a few pieces missing, but it’s okay. I know some of my favorite characters are currently OK and that makes me absolutely thrilled. Being a child of an addict, I know how real life is and that most addicts don’t get clean. If they do, it doesn’t last long. It’s a vicious circle, which continuously destroys everyone around that person. So, while I love In Vein series, just know that it’s not the norm, it’s just a fictional read. One that’s absolutely amazing and I think everyone should read it.