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Shadow Study
by Maria V. Snyder
Read the Poison Study trilogy AND the Glass trilogy before reading this book!
This is technically thr fourth book in the Yelena Zaltana series but the seventh book in the Chronicles of Ixia. Unfortunately i read this before picking up the Glass trilogy, which focus on Opal, so Shadow Study takes place six years after Fire Study and references a lot of things and characters that happened and appeared in the Glass trilogy. In saying that though, despite some initial confusion I was 100% okay with this story, and i was able to figure out a lot of what they were talking about when referencing things from Glass.
I loved seeing Yelena a little bit older, but obviously a magnet for trouble as always. I did like that Yelena and Valek are both dealing with different things now they're older. Yelena is getting questions about marriage and children from all sides but also thinking about it herself, while Valek is a little bit older and creakier now and possibly not the best fit anymore to be the Commander's Head of Assasins and is more vulnerable to younger, fitter and quicker upstarts than he was before.
Yelena loses her magic during this book for an unknown reason and it was very moving and interesting to read her feeling more vulnerable than ever before. It reminded me of the Yelena we met at the start of Poison Study, and it was great seeing her rely on her own intuition and physical skillset again instead of her magic. I did figure out the reason behind Yelena's magic loss about halfway through and I'm really glad I was right. I can't wait to see what happens!
This is technically thr fourth book in the Yelena Zaltana series but the seventh book in the Chronicles of Ixia. Unfortunately i read this before picking up the Glass trilogy, which focus on Opal, so Shadow Study takes place six years after Fire Study and references a lot of things and characters that happened and appeared in the Glass trilogy. In saying that though, despite some initial confusion I was 100% okay with this story, and i was able to figure out a lot of what they were talking about when referencing things from Glass.
I loved seeing Yelena a little bit older, but obviously a magnet for trouble as always. I did like that Yelena and Valek are both dealing with different things now they're older. Yelena is getting questions about marriage and children from all sides but also thinking about it herself, while Valek is a little bit older and creakier now and possibly not the best fit anymore to be the Commander's Head of Assasins and is more vulnerable to younger, fitter and quicker upstarts than he was before.
Yelena loses her magic during this book for an unknown reason and it was very moving and interesting to read her feeling more vulnerable than ever before. It reminded me of the Yelena we met at the start of Poison Study, and it was great seeing her rely on her own intuition and physical skillset again instead of her magic. I did figure out the reason behind Yelena's magic loss about halfway through and I'm really glad I was right. I can't wait to see what happens!