![]() ![]() The plot was forced, and the character interactions were typical and the world map was the most BORING and LAZY I’d ever come across. I’ve read this book TWICE (not in a row, mind you), and the first time it left with me feeling like I’d just wasted my money. Yelena, the protagonist, in her role as a poison taster for the Military’s Commander, comes across such magicians and realises that she has magic powers, which must be kept hidden from both the Commander and her assassin-ninja-boss Valek. That all sounds fine, but the magicians in the south of the world, are plotting something… ![]() Everyone wears uniforms, and everyone has a job that is suited for their abilities. Set a world where the older kingdom has been taken over by the military for 15 year, the new regime requires everyone to live under various military-controlled districts, most boringly named MD-1, MD-2, MD-3, etc. This is an easy-reading Young-Adult book with the premise that a young girl, who killed her former guardian’s son, spent a year in prison and now has the choice of facing a death-by-hanging or by becoming the new Poison taster. I guess it would make sense for that to be the reason I picked up Poison Study, but no… I picked it up because I kept spotting the cover in my local Waterstones and it looked really, really interesting. Maria V Snyder is apparently an author of some renown. Released: 21st September 2007 (UK Version) “Unfortunately, poison not included with book” ![]()
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