Title: Graceling
Author: Kristin
Cashore
Publisher:
Harcourt
Length: 471 pages
Rating: 5/5
Katsa lives in a world where some people are born with a
skill called a Grace. While Graces are often feared, Katsa’s Grace of killing
is especially feared and loathed. Katsa struggles with her horrifying Grace and
what she must do with it under the command of her uncle, King Randa. Then Katsa
meets Prince Po, Graced with the skill of fighting, and unexpectedly teams up with
him to save all seven kingdoms in their land from a corrupt king and a dark
secret.
This book is an easy contender for Best YA Book of 2012 for
me (even though it came out in 2008). It has everything I loved about fantasy
books as a kid and everything I love about YA now (think Tamora Pierce for
older readers). Katsa is an amazing heroine with intense fighting skills and a
good heart that rebels against her own power given through her Grace of
killing. Po is an equally brilliant hero because he is the perfect seemingly-incompatible
compliment to Katsa’s headstrong ways. While a romance does develop, Katsa
doesn’t let it soften her, instead it improves her and she never gives up her
own convictions against marriage.
An absolutely brilliant debut by author Kristin Cashore, I
can’t wait for more from her! Luckily, because I’m late to this boat, there is
a prequel, Fire, and a companion, Bitterblue, for me to read.
You can see the book trailer here.
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