I truly admired the way MVS brought in new characters, as well. But as I watched Yelena fall in love, I was pleasantly surprised! When I first started reading, I didn’t even think this was a romance novel. I also have to tell you that the romance was just an added bonus. It truly made me think, which doesn’t happen that often. And just when I thought I’d figured out what was going on, a new revelation would occur and I’d have to review everything I thought I knew about the story and characters. Plus, the General whose son she murdered isn’t happy to wait around and see if she dies by poison.Īs the story develops, and I was shown more and more of Yelena’s world, I was completely drawn in.

Not only that, but a traitorous plot is revealed and Yelena seems to be right in the middle of it. And if she survives her training, there’s a good possibility she won’t survive a plot to murder the Commander.Īs Yelena finds out more and more about what’s going on around her the entire picture changes, and she’s forced to look deep inside herself for strength she isn’t sure she possesses. She was forced to sample a lot of different poisons so that she could recognize them in the Commander’s meals, some of which leave her so ill she’s incoherent for days. The training of a food taster really surprised me. Yelena says that only a fool wouldn’t accept, and that she is no fool. She’s put on the spot: Die now, or possibly die later by poison. Instead, Valek offers her the position of food taster for the Commander. On the day she’s to be executed, she’s brought before The Commander’s first in command, Valek, to confess her crimes before she’s taken to the gallows and hung. Poison Study is the first person tale of Yelena, a woman sentenced to death for murdering the son of a high ranking General in Ixia. This is a re-read for me, in preparation for the 3rd and final book in this trilogy, Fire Study (which I will review in a couple days). And by law, the next prisoner who is scheduled to be executed-me-must be offered the position.

Ixia's food taster-chosen to ensure that the Commander's food is not poisoned-has died. And now I wait for the hangman's noose.īut the same law that condemns me may also save me. Here in Ixia, the punishment for murder is death. He deserved to die-but according to the law, so do I. Locked in a coffin-like darkness, there is nothing to distract me from my memories of killing Reyad. Also in this series: Magic Study, Fire Study, Night Study, Shadow StudyĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Books

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