Graceling | 
| Author: Kristin Cashore
Publisher: Harcourt Children's Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  108 reviews
Sales Rank: 2896
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.3
ISBN: 015206396X
EAN: 9780152063962
ASIN: 015206396X
Publication Date: October 1, 2008
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Amazon.com Review
If you had the power to kill with your bare hands, what would you do with it? pemGraceling/em takes readers inside the world of Katsa, a warrior-girl in her late teens with one blue eye and one green eye. This gives her haunting beauty, but also marks her as a Graceling. Gracelings are beings with special talents?swimming, storytelling, dancing. Katsa's Grace is considered more useful: her ability to fight (and kill, if she wanted to) is unequaled in the seven kingdoms. Forced to act as a henchman for a manipulative king, Katsa channels her guilt by forming a secret council of like-minded citizens who carry out secret missions to promote justice over cruelty and abuses of power./p pCombining elements of fantasy and romance, Cashore skillfully portrays the confusion, discovery, and angst that smart, strong-willed girls experience as they creep toward adulthood. Katsa wrestles with questions of freedom, truth, and knowing when to rely on a friend for help. This is no small task for an angry girl who had eschewed friendships (with the exception of one cousin that she trusts) for her more ready skills of self-reliance, hunting, and fighting. Katsa also comes to know the real power of her Grace and the nature of Graces in general: they are not always what they appear to be./p pemGraceling/em is the first book in a series, and Kristin Cashorersquo;s first work of fiction. It sets up a vivid world with engaging characters that readers will certainly look forward to following beyond the last chapter of this book. (Ages 14 and up) em--Heidi Broadhead/em/p p/p
Product Description
Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight--she's a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king's thug.PWhen she first meets Prince Po, Graced with combat skills, Katsa has no hint of how her life is about to change. She never expects to become Po's friend. She never expects to learn a new truth about her own Grace--or about a terrible secret that lies hidden far away . . . a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone. PWith elegant, evocative prose and a cast of unforgettable characters, debut author Kristin Cashore creates a mesmerizing world, a death-defying adventure, and a heart-racing romance that will consume you, hold you captive, and leave you wanting more.
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 AWESOME book!! January 9, 2009
This book was really really good! You should read this and the Hunger Games, they are two of the best books I've read in a while!
Gripping Seething 4 more January 1, 2009
I had gotten this book on Chrismas day, I started reading on the way to our ski vacation and once the lifts close not much is happening I had decided to start it and it wasn't very interesting until the 3rd or 4th chapters but once it too off and almost never slowed down.br /The characters seemed realistic, during Po and Katsa's training sessions it actually feels like they are telling you the story themselves. A couple of bits of romance keep it realistic between higher aged teens rather than little kids on an adventure it had added some reality to the whole thing.br /once I got started it was hard to put down, I had stayed up late into the night reading and got up early which I payed for the next day (a fair sacrafice)br /A must-read I'll definately will recommend to my friends and is currently my favorite book. :D
A New World to Discover... January 1, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Summary: Graceling is about a teenage girl named Katsa. She lives in a world, where people are born with amazing gift. They can climb trees, have super strength, automatic knowledge of weather, and many other graces. Graces are born with two very different eye colors. Katsa is one them. She killed a cousin when she was 8, causing her to become a henchwomen for her uncle, King Randa of Middlun. She also runs The Council with the help of her friends, that tries to put justice and fairness into the 7 nations. She meets a stranger, named Po, who is also graced. He is the first one to challenge her and they embark on an amazing journey. br /br /br /My Review: I though it was a very well written. I like the characters, they were very in depth. I think it was an excellent first novel. The ending did surprise me, but it was still pretty amazing. I am looking forward to the prequel, Fire and Book 3.
 Strong Heroine, Gorgeous Writing, A Good Follow-Up December 31, 2008
As a new lover of The Hunger Games, I decided to try out Graceling because it is always heavily advertised with THG and I was looking for something new to read because I was going through just-finished-a-spectacular-life-changing-book-that-people-are-now-calling-out-but-I-don't-care-because-it-is-the-best-book-I've-ever-read-and-there-are-only-a-few-plots-in-the-world-so-deal-with-it-doomsayers syndrome. Graceling wasn't as good as THG, but it certainly was magnificent and beautiful in its own right, with plot turns that kept me going. br /Katsa is a Graceling, and is equipped with a Grace of killing. Although in some circumstances this could be an upside, Katsa had grown to loathe it, mostly because her uncle, King Randa, uses her as a punishing machine for the kingdom. On a special mission Katsa meets a mysterious man, who changes her life forever by making her face the truth of her Grace and how she has her own power over it.br /The beginning was really hard to get into, but once the plot got rolling at about page 70 it all turned out well. Katsa is a strong heroine, which I admire, and Po was a darling. It had a lot of action and adventure, and I loved Bitterbell. The only complaints I have is how it seemed very distant, the writing. I think it would be even better if it was 1st person. I also didn't think that King Leck had to be a raving maniac, but it didn't affect me too much. Overall though I was very pleased with the gorgeous prose and storyline. A good follow-up to the butt-kicking heroine spectrum. I just need more books like this...br /br /
Exceptional December 27, 2008
Fast paced, engrossing, refreshing, unique. The concept of magic as a Grace is unusual, and creates a "thinker" of an action novel. Along the lines of Tamora Pierce or Mercedes Lackey in the scope of the action, with a Turtledove-like or Stirling-like ability to make you think of the consequences of the characters' talents long after you're done reading. Fantastic, I can't recommend it highly enough. YA fantasy at its best.
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