Book & Information 19 Oct 2007 10:11 am
Yelena on Myspace
So the wonder of the Study Books continues! Maria V. Snyder has created a MySpace page for Yelena, over here. Go check it out. There are fun pictures and videos at the site.
Don’t forget that FIRESTUDY is coming out in March of 2008,
FIRE STUDY: SURROUNDED BY FIRE WITH NO WAY TO ESCAPE THE BURN.
Once it is on the shelves, it will be in my hot little hands!!!
Also worthwhile, head over to Nesfa’s review of Magic Study, its a good one, and it is always good to support New England sci-fi groups!
Tags: books, fantasy, fire study, magic study, maria v. snyder, nesfa, poison study, sci-fi, science fiction, snyder, yelena, yelena zaltana
on 08 Dec 2007 at 10:55 pm 1.Ana said …
yes!!!
I love the study series. You think they are dime a dozen fantasy…them you read them.Poison Study is the book that you see in the store and you think …hmmm cool name way better cover art than the rest of my SF/Fantasy collection…I wonder. You pick it up, flip through the pages, don’t really read any and decide it is probably a gimmick. Then you buy it anyway because the cover is Sooo pretty (and maybe hate yourself a little for being so shallow). You go home, sit on the sofa then read the first page. After than you can’t possibly move for the next few hours and finally come up for air with a horrible neck cramp and the utter satisfaction that comes with being in the middle of a great story. You decide that it was your amazing subconscious book-radar that led you to your purchase, not a pretty cover. It has enough of the regular markers of the genre to make it a comfortable read but it is told in such a fresh way with very original twists that make it completely new and enjoyable. Yelena’s is a world you will not want to leave. The story continues at full speed through the sequel Magic Study which tells a very new tale but still upholds the quality of the first. This is a very different story from the one found in the first book of the series, Poison Study. Poison Study is coming of age story in many ways. It follows a battered (but by no means broken) girl on her path to herself and her freedom. The second book Magic Study finds her on her own again, this time so she can learn how to wield the power she has found within herself to help others. It is the perfect set up in the sense that the amazing repertoire between Valek and Yelena (our girl) may be lost for most of the story but we see Yelena truly find her own (something that would have been hard to do with her highly protective, nearly invincible lover cracking his knuckles over her shoulder…not that Valek would ever be so overt). I have high hopes that the soon-to-be-released Fire Study will reach the bar set by its predecessors