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If you had the power to kill with your bare hands, what would you do with it?
Graceling 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.
Combining 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.
Graceling is the first book in a series, and Kristin Cashore’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) --Heidi Broadhead
About the Author
Kristin Cashore earned her master’s degree from the Center for the Study of Children’s Literature at Simmons College. She has been a dog runner, a packer in a candy factory, an editorial assistant, and a freelance writer. Kristin currently resides in Florida, where her daily activities include walking along the St. Johns River.
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- PublisherGollancz
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0575084502
- ISBN 13 9780575084506
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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Paperback: 9¼" x 6". Condition: Very Good: Light signs of wear. Cover Art: Larry Rostant (illustrator). 2008 Edition. © 2008: 1st in the 'Seven Kingdoms' series of books. Unknown publication date. 6th printing of 2008 edition:- Synopsis: In a world where people born with an exceptional skill, known as a Grace, are both feared and exploited, Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. As a Graced killer who has been able to kill a man with her bare hands from the age of eight, she's forced to work as the king's thug. Feared by the court and shunned by those her own age, the darkness of her Grace casts a heavy shadow over Katsa's life. Yet Katsa remains defiant, and when the King of Liend's father is kidnapped she investigates, and stumbles across a mystery. Who would want to kidnap the old man, and why? And who was the extraordinary Graced man whose fighting abilities rivalled her own? The only thing Katsa is sure of is that she no longer wants to kill. The intrigue surrounding the kidnapping offers her a way out - and little does she realise, when she takes it, that something insidious and dark lurks behind the mystery, something spreading from the shadowy figure of a one-eyed king:- Review(s): "With 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 captivate you, and leave you wanting more" / "A wow of a book! I had to know how it ended" - Tamora Pierce / "An exquisitely drawn romance, political intrigue, a take-charge heroine and a magnificently imagined fantasy realm - this riveting debut has something for almost everyone" - Publishers Weekly:- (original cost £9.99). Seller Inventory # 12.016.00019
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