Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Graceling-Part 1

When I first read the review of Graceling I knew that I wanted to read it. 
Katsa is the main character and also a graceling.  She has one blue eye and one green eye.  When she was only eight-years-old she watched her uncle as he touched the women who worked for him inappropriately, and when he tried to touch her, he died.  Katsa killed her uncle by punching him only once.  After that everybody was afraid of Katsa, they all avoided her gaze.  Her other uncle found out about her having being graced with killing and fighting, one in the same, he took her in and used her to straighten out those who needed it.  She began training with a lord of her uncles and a guy who takes care of things.  They taught Katsa how to control her grace, so she would not kill anybody without meaning to. 
Her uncle sent her on a mission to get a leinid and on the way she met another graceling, a lienid graceling.  He has one eye silver and the other gold.  When Katsa and her trainers get back to the castle of Randa she is to put a dress on for a supper, for she was to meet a gentleman.  Well it turns out that the lienid she had met was there too.  His name is Prince Greening, but he likes to be called Po.  The man she is to meet and talk with is a lord of another kingdom; they actually do talk a lot.  Katsa ends up walking out of the supper to relax her mind before she hurts somebody.  To do that she does some archery.  Po comes and watches her and then they get into a small brawl.  After that Po wants to see his grandfather who is the lienid that she had rescued from the prison. 
I don’t know about you guys but I really like this book!

1 comment:

  1. I'm so glad you're enjoying it! I knew you would, Nicole.

    Remember, the purpose of this blog is NOT to summarize, but instead to reflect and analyze. Can you talk to me about this?

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