false 60510 10 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. 1180409 book 2005 Poison Study (Study, #1) total:3903|5:1629|4:1573|3:568|2:98|1:35| 3903 16372 6352 903 3 19 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 25 13:38:45 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 01 23:03:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 10 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 14:16:29 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 14:21:44 -0800 2008 Poison Study on the shelves when it first came out, but passed it up several times because of, yes, I admit it, the cover. It was this older mass market paperback cover and not the lovely new trade paperback one. The girl on the old cover looked just a little too haughtily seductiv...more...]]> 3 7 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Jan 17 08:23:19 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 08:27:04 -0800 2008 5 4 false false Tue Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 18:45:02 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 18:45:26 -0700 2008
Yelena is "rescued" from execution when she is given the opportunity to be the food taster for the Commander. Which of course, means, that...more...]]> 5 4 false false Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Feb 11 16:46:01 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 15:05:19 -0800 2009 1 & reading again ;) more...]]> 5 4 false false Sat May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 11:41:17 -0700 2008 Sat May 24 17:53:50 -0700 2008 3 3 false false Tue Oct 07 08:06:07 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 09:04:48 -0700 2008 1
Surely I know I would choose the slow, painful, unpred...more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Nov 05 18:09:15 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 05 18:09:15 -0800 2008 Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder, death guaranteed for Yelena after she is convicted of murder. Yelena is given the opportunity to become food tester instead of being executed. The trouble with this is the fact that, though death still looms overhe...more...]]> 5 4 false false Mon Feb 09 17:44:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 04 06:15:46 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 09 17:44:00 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 24 23:57:38 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 07 06:25:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 11:51:44 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 02 15:48:30 -0700 2008 5 Twilight and this is as close as I'm ever going to get, I think. Or maybe surpassed it, I don't know. I might have held my breath through the entire reading, and I read the trilogy in 2 or 3 days (foregoing sleep, food, and potty breaks)--I suppose I m...more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 01 11:54:42 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 22 15:39:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 20:20:50 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 20:40:14 -0700 2008
I loved the fact that to me, the poison tester premise was wholly new. And really enjoyed the book, from one end to the other. The surprises, the lack of graphic...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 22:04:16 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 14:25:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Mar 16 17:07:25 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 17:08:02 -0700 2009 0 2 false false Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jun 15 14:15:04 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 24 10:28:24 -0800 2008 5 2 false false Sun Sep 07 12:17:46 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 12:20:03 -0700 2008 4 1 false false Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 15:31:45 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 18:05:58 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 27 05:51:36 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 13:36:31 -0800 2008
I confess that although I had read good opinions about the books, I was a little wary of reading them, exactly because of it's genre. The m...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Nov 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 30 20:34:30 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 03 09:51:31 -0800 2008 more...]]>