Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Agent, Sally Wecksler and Joann Amparan-Close. The first in a series, this is one of those rare books that will keep readers dreaming long after they've read it. With the help of Valek, her steely-nerved, cool-eyed boss and the Commander's head of security, she soon discovers that she has a starring role to play in Ixia's future-a role that could lead to her being put to death as a budding magician even if she hits each cue perfectly. But some people are too impatient to wait for poison to finish off Yelena. Though confined to a dank prison cell and doomed to a painful death, Yelena slowly blooms again, caught up in castle politics. ![]() Through a stroke of luck, Yelena escapes execution in exchange for tasting the food of the Commander, ruler of Ixia. And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. ![]() Shell eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace-and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of ixia. It tells the story of a twenty-year-old girl named Yelena, who after spending just less than a year in a dungeon awaiting execution is given the chance to live on the condition that she will become the Commander 's Food Taster. ![]() Snyder and the first book in the Study series. 10 Ipswich, QLD About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. Poison Study is a 2005 fantasy novel written by Maria V. Shivers, obsession, sleepless nights-these are the results not of one of the milder poisons that novice food-taster Yelena must learn during her harrowing job training but of newcomer Snyder's riveting fantasy that unites the intelligent political focus of George R.R. 1 day ago &0183 &32 Poison study by Maria V Snyder, the first in the poison study series. ![]()
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