

She’ll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace-and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.Īnd so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. In any case, beyond the gorgeous cover art, let’s get down to the books themselves.Ībout to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve.


This is one of those times when having a Kindle edition of the book really upsets me, because if I had a paperback edition of Poison Study on my shelf, it would make me very happy. Snyder’s Study/Soulfinders/Chronicles of Ixia novels on Tumblr, and when there are gifsets and image posts running around, you can’t help but notice how beautiful the cover art for poison study is – there are four different editions, that I’ve seen, and they’re all gorgeous, but I particularly enjoy the one which looks like coloured smoke. Originally I wasn’t going to post about these books until I had read all three, but I’ve accidentally gotten myself into the middle of three different fantasy series (Valisar, Study, and The Goddess Test), and I felt the need to write a blog post today, so here’s what I’m going to write about – Yelena Zaltana, and her first two adventures.įirst, before anything else, let’s just talk about that cover art – I first became aware of Maria V.
