false<![CDATA[Magic Study (Study, #2)]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1221773128m/46202.jpg4620211Yelena 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.1254584book1102006Magic Study (Study, #2)total:2963|5:999|4:1253|3:598|2:99|1:14|296312013410949352falsefalseFri Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009Tue Nov 25 00:00:20 -0800 2008Fri Mar 13 05:34:23 -0700 2009 In the sequel to Poison Study, we follow Yelena, in exile, back to her homeland of Sitia where she is to study under the fourth Magician, Irys. After a reunion with the family that she hasn't seen since she was kidnapped at the age of 6, Yelena travels on to the Citadel to begin...more...]]>
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Poison Study, this book is not very well-written, but still quite entertaining and fun. I liked it less than the first book in the series, mostly because the best characters—Yelena’s love interest, Valek, whom Snyder succeeds in making seem genuinely dangerous (in an admit...more...]]>
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Poison Study. Yelena knows more about the world in general now, even though she is still prone to scholastic errors.
One of the things I can never quite decide about Yelena is whether or not she is a "Mary Sue" type ch...more...]]>
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40falsefalseMon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009Tue Oct 06 07:19:09 -0700 2009Tue Oct 06 07:29:02 -0700 2009 In this book our protagonist Yelena is exiled from the home she knows to return to the country she was kidnapped from as a young child. She reconnects with her birth family, but her brother hates her on sight. She enters a school/mentorship program to...more...]]>
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40falsefalseSun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009Mon Aug 10 16:22:50 -0700 2009Mon Aug 10 22:12:11 -0700 2009 There are tons of new characters. We meet Yelena's real family, all of whom are intriguing...more...]]>
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Poison Study left off, following Yelena, Irys and and the other Sitian children as they return home.
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Yelena is a great protagonist and all of the other characters compliment her well.
It was nice to see her get to finally see her family after 14 years, and even better to see her get her memory back....more...]]>
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40falsefalseSun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009Thu Aug 06 17:09:05 -0700 2009Tue Aug 11 17:17:29 -0700 2009 All of our favorite characters make an appearance,...more...]]>
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Poison Study, which I read this from start to finish in one session. The natural progression of the story as well as great character development hold this book to the same standards as it predecessor.
Janco and Ari who appear in the first book provide the com...more...]]>
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