Janice Y. (jai) reviewed on 9/7/2008 + 310 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 8

Overall: worth reading to finish the series. I'd say a decent read and nice to see how the people in Poison Study turned out. However Poison Study remains my favorite book in the series by far. Loved that book when I first read it, probably should reread it.

Good bits and nits:

Good:
I liked all the parts where Valek was around. I think the chemistry between the two is well written, and you feel that despite the long-distance relationship, they still feel strongly about each other.
It did feel more cohesive with Magic Study.
Usually Synder's villian's aren't black and white, we see why they are motivated to do what they do and they kind of make sense in a twisted way.

Nitty:
There was a complete wild goose chase in half of this book. It seemed like a lot of effort was put into getting Yelena to go off somewhere running around in Sitia, but why? I wasn't completely sure. Maybe it was the villians' diabolical plan, muhahahaha? but still rather... well, it's strange and I'm confused about it.
I didn't buy into the parts of the book where everyone was angry at Yelena. The reasons were silly, and then I just saw that everyone is annoyed at her, but I didn't see her as being particularly worthy of all the snits everyone was in. The only argument I bought was the one with Valek. And when these issues got resolved it was really quickly without much discussion.
So many villians. Making things too complicated - as in I'm not sure I believe that there could be so many villians all up in here! I think because of this, the villians started becoming more caricature-ish than in past books.

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