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  <title><![CDATA[Fire Study (Study, #3)]]></title>
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  <default_description>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&amp;mdash;and save the land she holds dear.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">3</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2008</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Fire Study (Study, #3)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Maria V. Snyder]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt a bit blue last night as I finished <em>Fire Study</em>, the third and final volume in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Maria V. Snyder" title=" Maria V. Snyder"> Maria V. Snyder</a>'s Study Trilogy. Though she is currently working on a new series following a side character from the Study books, this is the last one to center on the adventures of Yelena, the convicted murderer, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19463450">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Apr 09 20:29:05 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unfortunately, this series has gone the way of many &quot;chicks-who-kick-butt&quot; stories go, where apparently no one is capable of doing anything (or thinking, or even desiring to think, for that matter) except for the unflappable, clever, sarcastic heroine.  The voice has become modern/mainstre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18540164">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30378161">
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 17 10:42:50 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 17 10:42:50 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[dont read this if you dont want the book to be spoit . <br/><br/><br/><br/>i love all 3 books. i felt so sad when i read the last page.i liked the ending but i wanted something more from it.<br/><br/><br/><br/>the book starts of as she recives a message from moon man wanting to meet with her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30378161">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15107930">
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Feb 10 20:00:34 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 26 23:37:52 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ugh.  Well, I was obsessed with Poison Study, and Magic Study was pretty good, but this book really didn't satisfy.  I found myself skimming it a lot, and I felt bad doing it.<br/><br/>    For some reason the whole reason I liked the series in the first place dwindled throughout this concluding no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15107930">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="53258291">
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 19 15:01:33 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 24 15:52:56 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[2 stars is still pretty generous for this book.  Bleh.  I was so disappointed.  Reading these 3 books was a similar experience to the Eragon books ... LOVED the first one, thought the second one was good but not as good as the previous, and forced my way through the third one while skipping massive ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53258291">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30231177">
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  <date_added>Fri Aug 15 10:35:23 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 15 10:36:40 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book, though not quite as much as the other two. There is something about a woman needing a man that appeals to me and in this book, she is becoming much more independent and doesn't need Valek nearly as much. :( But I still enjoyed her adventures to save her world.]]></body>
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    <review id="42192623">
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    <name><![CDATA[Alaine]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jan 06 23:51:41 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the third and final book in the Study series. I have to say I was a little bit disappointed as I thought this book would follow a similar format to the others. The first one was Poison Study and it was about Yelena's job as a food taster for the Commander of Ixia. In the second book Yelena g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42192623">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40671869">
    <user id="1693763">
    <name><![CDATA[Jessica]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Diego, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 22 08:48:24 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 03 12:41:45 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had heard from the friend who let me borrow this series of books that the third wasn't as good as the first two, so I was expecting to be a little disappointed in this story. That, however, didn't happen.<br/><br/>I mean, true, the story did get a little bogged down in Yelena's stubborn streak a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40671869">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39306769">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 13 10:33:21 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[After enjoying the first two in this series, I'm finding the third hard to get through. The language is stilted and boring, I'm not interested in the characters, and various betrayals and deaths just don't spark any emotion in me. It's too bad, too, because her world and the mythology behind it - th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39306769">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49263766">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quick review: The second book (Magic Study) is not as good as the first and third books, and the third book (Fire Study) is not as good as the first book. They are, however, entertaining books. I found the story very interesting. Honestly, I picked up the third book, intending to read the third chap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49263766">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75296457">
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    <name><![CDATA[Nancy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Oct 21 15:52:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't find a copy of this book after I read the first two in the Study series (Poison Study and Magic Study), but after reading the first in Maria Snyder's Glass series, I decided maybe I should take a chance, especially as I'd enjoyed all of her books so far.<br/><br/>Wish I'd read it sooner...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75296457">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74035271">
    <user id="1382322">
    <name><![CDATA[Valerie]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 09 20:07:35 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 09 20:19:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pros: Inventive, creative and lots of action.  Yelena starts to have more friends in the last two books..finally.  I never really knew what was going to happen next in any of these books so I did read the series quickly because I found myself liking and caring about what happened to the main charact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74035271">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67725998">
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    <body><![CDATA[“Fire Study” is the conclusion to Maria Snyder’s fantasy series about a young woman named Yelena Zaltana, who we met in the first book (”Poison Study”) as prisoner on death row condemned for killing a man. Given the chance to become a food taster instead of hanging from the noose, Yelena n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67725998">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66920947">
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    <name><![CDATA[Krista]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[See my Magic Study review, because this is pretty much the same book, except instead of Yelana saying, &quot;Oh, why oh why would I be a Soul Finder? It's not possible!&quot; she's saying, &quot;Oh, why oh why am I a Soul Finder when my parents are not and when I don't want to be!?&quot;<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66920947">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63465583">
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    <name><![CDATA[Michele]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was so sad to finish this series.  I so love Yelena and Valek.  They are wonderful characters.  Watching Yelena grow from the young lady ready to die by hangman's noose grow to become such a strong heroine was exciting.  She is a heroine that has fears and isn't afraid to admit it.<br/><br/>She ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63465583">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61597184">
    <user id="1368430">
    <name><![CDATA[Amanda]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Jun 30 23:21:42 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't explain why I loved this book better than the others, but it might be because many of the loose ends of the plot where tied up here in a way that I was satisfied. Yes, Yelena becomes supergirl in the end, but considering what a horrible life she lived and all the things she suffered to get t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61597184">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38102091">
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    <body><![CDATA[I've completed the trilogy. As I've found seems to be the case in trilogies, first book best, second book good, third book somewhere in between the two. <br/><br/>The characters are interesting and I feel invested in them, and as if I know them. The plot was predictable, with a minor twist at the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67728937">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In this sequel to <em>Poison Study</em> and <em>Magic Study</em>, Yelena is still in the country of Sitia, and, as usual, it seems she is in over her head.  A royal wannabe is out to get her, the Sitian Council and First Magician are fearful of her growing powers, and the whole clan of Daviian's is conspiring to take...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44706001">more...</a>]]></body>
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