Saturday, 30 April 2011

Poison Study

So I just read a great Young Adult Novel. A fellow blogger that I have been following makes a lifestyle of reading and reviewing YA books, and she is good at it.

In one blog she mentioned a book called Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder. It was thrilling. Yelena grows up an orphan in a part of her world which has been converted to a military dictatorship. Through a series of events she ends up in jail for killing someone. The dictatorship has a policy - everyone who kills another person is put to death - no exceptions. However she is given the opportunity to instead become a Poison taster for the Commander of this military dictatorship. Magic is also something that is not allowed in this military world, which makes things interesting for Yelena who has magical abilities.  I really enjoyed this book and am trying very hard not to spoil it for anyone who wants to read it. It has just the right amount of action, adventure, love and character development I would expect in a first of a series, and I have to say after I finished this I went and bought the second book (and have since read it).  It just gets better and better!

All for now. I am trying to procrastinate studying for my Renaissance Literature final exam - so I will go check out that fellow blogger - cuz she looks like she has loads of books down as must reads!

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