Posion study review

This review has taken longer then what i wanted to write mainly because i have wanted to do other things have. I have been wanting to read this book for so long and have now finally read it YAY.

Poison study by Maria V. Snyder is about Yelena who has been in prison for a year waiting to be hung for murdering someone. she gets offered the job to be the commanders food taster. The food tasters job is to taste food and drink for poison to protect the Commander.

I loved Yelena, she is a great heroine. She is intelligent, stubborn and prepared to learn. You learn slowly what happened and why to Yelena and the reasoning behind the murder of Reyad.

Yelena constantly proves to everyone that they underestimate her and that she has more to her then what it looks like, for example that she is a rat.

She trains to defend herself, to use a switchblade and a bow. She also learned how to pick locks. Yelena also prepares well and is organised. she always brings what she needs ad a few other things in her backpack like a grappling hook, Rand's glue and food.

Valek is intelligent, loyal, highly knowledgeable about poisons and fighting. Valek is an assassin and the Commanders spymaster. He is a highly skilled fighter and can fight hand to hand or with a weapon, he has even fought four people with just a mug.

He is completely loyal to Commander Ambrosia and to protecting him where he will do anything to achieve that. He is Yelena's mentor and protector early on. I love him and is a good love interest. i spent most of the book wanting them to kiss and when they finally do i may have screamed a little.

Yelena gains to adorable friends Ari and Janco who end up like brothers to her. Valek has named then them the power twins, they are the opposite of each other and super cute, with each other and Yelena. They are loyal to Yelena and train her in self defence and fighting with a bow and a switchblade. Janco trains her in pick locking.

Maria V. Snyder gives you enough information in regards to the overall plot and what happened to Yelena to keep you going to the end and to keep you intrigued and to try and work out what is going on.

There is not enough of Valek being awesome and no where enough of him being swoon worthy. There also isn't enough of Valek and Yelena together being adorable.

Maria V. Snyder needs to improve on her descriptions of people as they are usually loosely described and hard to picture.

Thankfully this book lived up to my expectation and i loved this book it is defiantly a five star book.
★★★★★

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Paige xx