Book Blurb:
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 Dusté 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—.
My Review
I really enjoyed this book. It’s been a while since I’ve read the first book in a series and been dying to get onto book 2 – with Poison Study that’s exactly how it went.
I loved all the characters in this book. Yelena is a strong heroine – the perfect main character. This book is also written in first person, which sometimes comes off as a bit awkward for me as a reader but really worked here.
The secondary characters are all well developed and intriguing in of themselves. While Yelena is definitely the focus of the book, the other characters are equally as believable and important to the tale.
The pacing in the book is also great. The plotline grabbed my attention from page one and I had to keep going and see where Snyder went with the tale. I love stories like this.
Reminiscent of Graceling for me, I highly recommend Poison Study!
