Series
Yelena Zaltana / Study
Maria V. Snyder · 8 novels · 1 short story · 2005–2025
Poison Study opens Maria V. Snyder's Study series with Yelena, a condemned murderer offered a reprieve if she becomes the reigning Commander's food taster in the harsh northern territory of Ixia — a job that requires her to take a slow-acting poison whose antidote only her enigmatic handler, Valek, controls. The series continues through Magic Study and Fire Study (and later a second trilogy), following Yelena's magic and her uneasy bond with Valek across the neighboring lands of Ixia and Sitia.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Valek's Adventures(3 works)
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Yelena Zaltana / Study at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2000s3
- 2010s3
- 2020s3
Shape
8 novels · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:fantasypolitical intriguesecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 75% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book8 of 9 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Study of Poisonsdarkest · most intense
- Magic Studybrightest · calmest