Name: Fire Study (Study #3)
Author: Maria V. Snyder
Number of Pages: 441
Publisher: Mira
Date Published: March 1st, 2008
Source: Given for Review
Rate: 3.5/5
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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Name: Magic Study (Study #2)
Author: Maria V. Snyder
Number of Pages: 392
Publisher: Luna
Date Published: October 1st, 2006
Source: Given for Review
Rate: 4.5/5
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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Name: Poison Study (Study #1)
Author: Maria V. Snyder
Number of Pages: 412
Publisher: Mira
Date Published: March 1st, 2007
Source: Given for Review
Rate: 5/5
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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