Graceling
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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 inscription 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 incomparable 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 fundamentals of fantasy and romance, Cashore skillfully describes 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 tiny task for an mad 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 scenery of Graces in all-purpose: they are not permanently 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 plain world with engaging characters that readers will certainly look forwards to following beyond the last chapter of this book. (Ages 14 and up) –Heidi Broadhead
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I don’t usually write reviews. But every once in a while I come across a book that makes me want to PUKE and I feel the need to alert the world to it.
I did not like this book.
The main characters were average, and the leader has a horrible habbit of over-explaining things in an attempt to make a point sound like its something fantastic.
I wish to be a writer. I have a draft of my first book written and I have a draft of that same book that I ongoing crafting in the 5th grade. This book reads worse than my 5th grade writing.
Not gonna lie here, every additional sentence started with a noun. Like this:
Katsa did this. She then did this. She did this. She did this. The forest looked nice. She felt this.
[...]..
The romance? Could have been excellent but the writing fails to make it seem anything additional than silly.
The action? Poorly written.
The drama? Ha. Hahahaha. Ha. Yeah right.
The intrigue? Nonexistant.
And the end? I threw the book down. The last sentence was cheesy to the point where I wanted to scream.
In fact there are many sentences like that throughout the book.
The plot lacked severely in inventiveness, and so did the description, the dialogue and the names of the world. I know fantasy has become this thing where you have to have Jashra and Goura from Wagga, but if you can’t write like Tolkein, most people won’t reflect anything if it Bill and Jane from Fell.
The character names in the tale are weak and you can tell she (the leader) thought herself clever when she came up with the country names– well they’re not clever. They’re lame.
The only thing keeping this book alive is that the “grace” thought was to some extent appealing. But the cheesiness of everything killed it.
I know this sounds like a lot of ranting, but I have honestly read a TON of books; I reflect I know my stuff. My range is huge too, so don’t reflect me narrow-minded.
So should you read it?
Only if you have absolutely nothing else to do. And skip anything you find dull–trust me, it won’t make a difference.
If you’re into painfully blunt writing and mediocre plot go yet to be: that’s your inclination.
But if your looking for something more, I would recommened THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzane Collins, which was ultiamately more appealing, amusing, and the romance and action and everything was better.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I looked forwards to this read with fantastic anticipation. Fantasy is my favorite read. The first 2/3 of the book was exceptionally excellent, but I kept waiting for her to mature into a female. She is extremely masculine, as a matter of fact the two characters, Po and Katsa, could have been juxtaposed and the book would have been the same. He was not feminine but she was so butch that it turned me off to the tale. Esspecially with the ending. I did not like the ending, the two lovers could not make a committment to each additional. Really Katsa was the one who could not committ. I don’t know if this was to prepare for more novels in this series but I will not be reading them. The world building was fine and the politics and the graces were very well developed but I could not get past her immaturity.
Katsa has a killing grace and she becomes her uncle’s enforcer and tortourer at the age of eight. She is very alone and most of the people dread her. This is way she reaches adulthood with no sense of being female. She must be very gorgeous because another Lord has fallen in like with her. She has a few friends who have ongoing a Council that tries to make justice for the people.
SPOILERS AHEAD!! (A name questioned that I tell my reviewers that there are spoilers in my review, so I am letting you know.)
Po is a prince who is searching for his grandfather who has been kidnapped. He meets Katsa when she rescues his grandfather. Traveling to her home kingdom he starts training with her and eventually when she rebels against the arrogance and bullying of her uncle, she leaves with him to learn who kidnapped his grandfather. Po has his own secret grace.
I absolutely loved the book to this point. The last third deals with his aunt who is kept prisoner by her spouse who has a grace of convincing anyone of anything as long as he says it. The rest was predictable, except for one or two things. I won’t say what persons were in case you do buy this book.
It was hard to get so deeply involved with the book and characters and at the end to find I did not like the main character.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Ok I don’t usually post my opinion but I have to with this. This book really holds a reader. It is quick paced, full of adventure, romance, and a strong female character. It has everything that is needed for a book that cann’t be place down. I really loved reading this book until about half way through. This is the reason I am posting a review. Personally I don’t delight in reading about a king who’s into incest. I reflect the writer had a wicked enough character lacking that flaw in his personality. I felt particularly uncomfortable reading how a young ten year maid could only walk with difficulty after the tale implied how she had been raped by the king the night before. This tale was strong enough lacking that. Also, I realize that people have different opinions regarding pro-life and pro-choice. That is what is fantastic about America freedom of speech and choice. Yet as a name who is pro-life I personally didn’t delight in the references to the “morning after pill” in the tale.
She is a fantastic writer, but I was disappointed by persons two subjects and felt fervently to voice that in writing.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Graceling is a wonderful tale about a young woman that has been graced with what she believes is the grace of killing people and she allows this belief to rule her life with dread. Through the help of a young man graced with the gift of reading minds she eventually learns that her right grace is the ability to survive the worst of conditions and together they learn to like each additional and to help others.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Feel free to snub my opinion as I didn’t make it past page eleven before returning this book to the library. I selected it up because a friend recommended it and the thought sounded appealing. But, I have a thing for believability even in my fantasy novels.
First, the fight scenes aren’t very realistic. (One of the very first fight moves the heroine does don’t sound possible to do as described…at least, not lacking getting a leg cut off.)
Second, some of the wording is odd. For example, the heroine whistles low, like an owl. Um, owls hoot, not whistle.
Third, some of the actions are weird but go unexplained. For example, the heroine takes out the prison guards (who I would presume have keys to the cell), yet her partner picks the lock to the cell lacking even checking for keys. No reason is agreed as to why they don’t look for keys.
Also, the heroine places a pill in the mouth of each man she’s knocked unconscious. What the pill does and how it works is not clarified, so I’m assuming it’s acts like a normal pill–as in, it needs to be swallowed (which, to our knowledge, it isn’t) and digested for a bit before it’s effective. I reflect, though, that the leader is implying that the pill will keep the guards unconscious for fifteen minutes. Yet this doesn’t make sense with how a real pill works. I need more explanation or I’m going to assume the tale isn’t very realistic in the ‘real world’ aspects and I’ll lose interest.
I’m writing this review so that others who are as nit-picky as me can avoid the book or at least know what they’re getting into.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5