Books are my life... discussion

Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

Choose: A quick death and hell or slow poison and hell.
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.



Magic Study by Maria V. Snyder

Yelena is a survivor. Kidnapped as a child, held prisoner as a teen, then released to act as a poison taster, she is now a student of magic. But these magic skills place her in imminent danger, and with an execution order on her head, she has no choice but to escape to Sitia, the land of her birth.
But nothing in Sitia is familiar. As she struggles to understand where she belongs and how to control her powers, a rogue magician emerges and Yelena catches his eye. Suddenly she is embroiled in a situation not of her making. And once again her magical abilities will either save her life or be her downfall.
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 new-found 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.



Fire Study by Maria V. Snyder

The apprenticeship is over— now the real test has begun.
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.

Assassin Study

Power Study

These are two short stories by Maria V Snyder which feature characters from the Study Trilogy that can be read online

Assasin Study: http://www.mirabooks.co.uk/images/pdf...

Power Study: http://www.mariavsnyder.com/powerstud...

Nobody has read this either? :(

lol, READ IT!!! Its amazing

Maybe I'll suggest it for group read, then you can read it earlier :)

yes it is, I do actually have good ideas once in a while =D

Not sure, I think I have good ideas, my friends on the other hand...

no really? I thought you were serious :P

Ice Study

This is another short story based on the characters in the Study Trilogy. This can be read online here:
http://www.mariavsnyder.com/IceStudy.php

I really like this series. I actually read the Glass books before them. I bought the storm and sea glass and read them, and really liked them, so I bought the study series and fell in love with those books. I'm glad I bought them.

Wait it's Study and THEN Glass?

Yes. It goes Poison Study, Magic Study, Fire Study, then Maria takes the character Opal in the Study series and gaver her her own series, Storm Glass, Sea Glass, Spy Glass

Then where does Storm come in?

is this series good?

YES =D

This series is BRILLIANT. I actually read Storm Glass FIRST not knowing the Study series was before it. Afterwards i went back and read the Study series.
It's now one of my ALL TIME faves!!! I adore it so much and Yelena is one of my fave heroines too.
I can't fault this series at all....except i wished it had never ended ;)