Friday, November 4, 2016

Graceling (Graceling #1) by Kristin Cashore

Graceling
(Graceling #1)
Kristin Cashore
YA Fantasy
Paperback, 370 pages
3rd September 2009 by Gollancz

Goodreads Ratings: 4.1/5
My Rating: 3.5/5



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.

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 she remains defiant: when the King of Lienid’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 around this kidnapping offers her a way out – but 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...

“When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”

Um..... okay.

Truthfully, I can't even state clearly what I feel about this book. I'm going to make this into point forms so my thoughts can be a bit coherent.

1) Cashore's writing style is okay but at times the dialogues sound a bit formal and too.... awkward

2) The first part of the book has so many resemblances with Throne of Glass (or should I say ToG has so many resemblances with Graceling because Graceling was published in 2008 while ToG 2012)

3) BUT KATSA IS WAY BETTER AS A PERSON AND HER STRONG, UNBEATABLE FIGHTING SKILL IS MUCH MORE REALISTIC THAN CALAENA HEH SORRY

4) Po is okay. Not really my type lol.

5) Somewhere in the middle of the book, it gets painfully boring I lost all mood to read

6) But then somewhere around the last 150 pages things start to kick in and the story gets really interesting, its a bit too late though. Hence, the low rating.

7) PO AT THE LAST FEW CHAPTERS THOUGH OH MY GOD

8) Bitterblue reminds me of Quintana at times, but not as ferocious

9) The ending/last page is so abrupt and sudden??????

I'd definitely read the sequels, that's for sure
 

“Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.” 

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