Yelena is given a bath and a new red and black uniform to signify she is under the authority of Commander Ambrose. This will prevent her from escaping the castle. Yelena vomits and Valek gives her an antidote, which she will now have to take everyday, otherwise the poison will kill her. After the toast, Valek tells her that the drink actually has poison in it. Guards release Yelena from her chains, and she enters a room with Valek, who gives her a drink to toast to her new job. She chooses to stay alive, saying that only a fool would choose death. However, when she arrives in the execution room, a man named Valek tells her she has a choice between her execution and tasting the Commander’s food before he eats it to ensure it isn’t poisoned. Knowing she cannot escape her fate, Yelena confesses openly to the murder as she is being led to her death. In the province of Ixia, the punishment for murder is death, regardless of the circumstances. She is in jail for the murder of a man named Reyad, who raped and abused her for years. The story begins with Yelena, a 22-year-old prisoner, being led to her execution.
Snyder does not use any elaborate prose in her storytelling, but she makes up for it with “many twists and turns to keep the reader guessing about what’s in store on the next page,” according to USA Today. The story follows protagonist Yelena, a former prisoner who avoids the death penalty by becoming the Commander’s food taster in the province of Ixia. Snyder and the first book in the The Chronicles of Ixia series. Poison Study is a 2005 fantasy novel by Maria V.
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