Publisher: Harlequin

{Review} Fire Study – Rebellion in Citia and Yelena’s Growing Abilities

Posted September 7, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments

{Review} Fire Study – Rebellion in Citia and Yelena’s Growing AbilitiesFire Study by Maria V Snyder
Series: Study #3
Publisher: Harlequin (2008)
Audiobook
{11 hours and 20 minutes} (441 pages)
Rating:
Also by this author: Poison Study, Magic Study
Also in this series: Poison Study, Magic Study
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

The apprenticeship is over—now the real test has begun.
When word that Yelena is a Soulfinder—able to capture and release souls—spreads like wildfire, people grow uneasy. Already Yelena’s unusual abilities and past have set her apart. As the Council debates Yelena’s fate, she receives a disturbing message: a plot is rising against her homeland, led by a murderous sorcerer she has defeated before…
Honor sets Yelena on a path that will test the limits of her skills, and the hope of reuniting with her beloved spurs her onward. Her journey is fraught with allies, enemies, lovers and would-be assassins, each of questionable loyalty. Yelena will have but one chance to prove herself—and save the land she holds dear.

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Review: Magic Study – Things Aren’t So Easy in Citia

Posted June 4, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: Magic Study – Things Aren’t So Easy in CitiaMagic Study by Maria V Snyder
Series: Study #2
Publisher: Luna (2006)
Audiobook
{11 hours and 35 minutes} (392 pages)
Rating:
Also by this author: Poison Study, Fire Study
Also in this series: Poison Study, Fire Study
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

You know your life is bad when you miss your days as a poison taster…
With her greatest enemy dead, and on her way to be reunited with the family she’d been stolen from long ago, Yelena should be pleased. But though she has gained her freedom, she can’t help feeling isolated in Sitia. Her Ixian background has changed her in many ways—and her newfound friends and relatives don’t think it’s for the better….
Despite the turmoil, she’s eager to start her magic training—especially as she’s been given one year to harness her power or be put to death. But her plans take a radical turn when she becomes involved with a plot to reclaim Ixia’s throne for a lost prince—and gets entangled in powerful rivalries with her fellow magicians.
If that wasn’t bad enough, it appears her brother would love to see her dead. Luckily, Yelena has some old friends to help her with all her new enemies…

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Review: Poison Study

Posted February 9, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: Poison StudyPoison Study by Maria V Snyder
Series: Study #1
Publisher: Mira (2005)
Audiobook
{10 hours and 26 minutes} (416 pages)
Rating:
Also by this author: Magic Study, Fire Study
Also in this series: Magic Study, Fire Study
Reading Challenges: 2015 Alphabet Soup, Read 2015

Synopsis

About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She’ll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.
And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly’s Dust—and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison.
As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can’t control. Her life is threatened again and choices must be made. But this time the outcomes aren’t so clear…

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