Serie: Study #1
Release date: 2004
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…
From the beginning, I was interested in Yelena's story. The beginning has you hooked from the very first sentence. Yelena is a young woman who ended up in a very dire situation. You learn throughout the book what her story is. Instead of getting excecuted, she becomes the food taster of the Commander. This is when Valek comes in, the tension isn't there between them in the beginning but is getting there with the pages. This book was very readable, fascinating and an enjoyable adventure. Yelena is a very strong person and I loved reading about her and her development. She doesn't want help and wants to fix everything by herself. It's just great to read about it. The relationship with Valek's develops slowy but it's there and I loved how Maria Snyder wrote about it. The end is a suprise, but I can't help but feel that I don't want to read the second book, although I really liked this one. Maybe I pick it up someday, but for now I really liked this first one!
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