Fire Study by Maria V Snyder

Fire Study (The Chronicles of Ixia, #3) (Study, #3)

by Maria V Snyder

The Apprenticeship is Over--Now the Real Test has Begun.

When word that Yelena is a Soulfinder--able to capture and release souls--spreads like wildfire, people grow uneasy. Already Yelena's unusual abilities and past have set her apart. As the Council debates Yelena's fate, she receives a disturbing message: a plot is rising against her homeland, led by a murderous sorcerer she has defeated before....

Honor sets Yelena on a path that will test the limits of her skills, and the hope of reuniting with her beloved spurs her onward. Her journey is fraught with allies, enemies, lovers and would-be assassins, each of questionable loyalty. Yelena will have but one chance to prove herself--and save the land she holds dear.

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This series just went in a direction I didn’t care for. I really missed the castle-life and characters of the first novel, and wish we would’ve stayed focused on them. Instead, the entire plot seemed to shift to the clans in the south. Not to mention the fact that Valek almost feels like a different person throughout this book and the previous one. I felt like his character development basically ended after the first book. The storyline revolved more around the characters introduced later in the series, and I frankly just didn’t care about them very much.
They weren't bad books, though. And I'll always have Poison Study to reread and treasure.

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