Choose: A quick death
or slow poison...
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Poison Study
Series: Study Trilogy, #1
Pub: 2005, (MIRA) harlequin
Author: Maria V. Snyder
Cat: fantasy, romance
Format: paperback (mid); 361 pp w/ 32 chapters
Age Range: YA
Synopsis
On the eve of her execution for murder, Yelena
Zaltana is offered an incredible reprieve – on the condition that she becomes
the food taster for the military leader of Ixia, Commander Ambrose.
Avoiding poison is the least of her troubles,
however... General Brazell, father of the man she killed, has vowed bloody
revenge; she’s beginning to have feelings for her captor, Valek; and someone is
plotting the downfall of the current regime.
In a desperate race against time, Yelena must
learn to control the growing magical talent within her and master the demons of
her past. The Commander’s life, the future of Ixia and all those she loves
depend on it...
Thoughts
“I am not a fool.”
It’s the set of the book. The set of the
series. Those five little words.
They are the words that Yelena gives Valek at
the end of chapter one and it’s the reason that she’s alive, the reason she
finds friends and the reason she ends up falling in love with the head of military
in the land that she lives in.
This book is set around why Yelena was next
for execution. Then it goes into a twist and turns life or a food taster. She meets
people. People she can call friends. She learns about herself, things that can’t
be shared because of the lands she lives in and the magic that’s involved in it
all.
She falls in love.
It’s sweet, slow and at some people you’re not
sure it’s even going to happen.
The adventure pulls you in, takes your heart
and spits it out only to be wanting more.
At least that’s what I found. It’s what
happened the first time; it’s what happened every time I picked up the thing. And
today wasn’t any different.
And even though I’m calling this a fantasy, I truly
do believe that you should go into this with romance in your heart and on your
mind.
That’s why I called it that, even though it
might not be put in that category originally.
This series was, again, one of those first
ones I picked up. It’s also one of the few fantasy books that I truly love, and
are more than anything, one of the trilogies that I push because I believe they
are that good.
And if it’s something you’d be interested in,
it’s defiantly worth the pick up.
Trilogy
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