Choose: A quick death…Or slow poison…
About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.
And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust—and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison.
As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can't control. Her life is threatened again and choices must be made. But this time the outcomes aren't so clear…
Wow,wow,wow!!!!!
I can't get over this book, the plot, the characters and most importantly the twist.
I love a book that has a great back story and I think that this story did, although things start out pretty basic, for instance you don't really know what Valek or Yelena are like or thinking in the beginning of the book, however towards the end you don't want them to go, you want to find out about their life after this chapter in their lifes has ended. I don't think I have ever connected with characters as much as I did with Yelena.
Yelena is a murderer we know that from the start, it isn't hidden she has accepted what she has done and will accept the punishment for the crime, death. Valek offers her a chance, he is looking for a food taster for the Commander, he has to offer the job to the next prisoner about to be exucuted, that is Yelena. From the start you get the idea that Valek isn't really interested in Yelena and wants her out the way from the start. After all, how can she be trusted when she murdered someone?
As the plot develops you start to learn more about the stories from the past lifes all the characters had, personally I think that Rand's was the saddest. However Yelena's was brutal and this leads to more confortation, from Yelena sharing her story we also learn that of Valek, a trained assisin.
The chaacters have back story and personality, the story is a fast moving non stop rollercoaster, that will literally be begging you to pick up Magic Study.
