Graceling - (Graceling Realm) by Kristin Cashore (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>With elegant, evocative prose and a cast of unforgettable characters, a debut author creates a mesmerizing medieval world, a death-defying adventure, and a heart-racing romance that is sure to captivate readers.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Enter the Graceling Realm with the beloved story that started it all, from <i>New York Times</i> best-selling author Kristin Cashore.</b> <p/> Katsa is a Graceling, one of the rare people born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she lived a life of privilege until the day her ability to kill a man with her bare hands revealed itself during a royal banquet. Now she acts as her uncle's enforcer, traveling the kingdom and threatening those who dare oppose him. <p/> But everything changes when she meets Po, a foreign prince Graced with combat skills who is searching for the truth about his grandfather's disappearance. When Katsa agrees to help him, she never expects to learn a new truth about her own Grace--or about a terrible secret that could destroy them all.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><b>A <i>New York Times</i> bestseller</b> <br><b>ALA Best Book for Young Adults</b> <br><b>Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature Winner</b> <br><b><i>Publishers Weekly</i>, <i>School Library Journal, </i><i>Booklist, </i>and <i>BCCB</i> Best Book of the Year</b> <p/>"In this debut fantasy, Cashore treats readers to compelling and eminently likeable characters and a story that draws them in from the first paragraph. . . . This is gorgeous storytelling: exciting, stirring, and accessible. Fantasy and romance readers will be thrilled." --<i>School Library Journal, </i> starred review</p><p>"Intrigue, death, love, a little sex, and pitched battles create a sure winner for mature fantasy fans."--VOYA (4Q, 4P)</p><p>"With a butt-kicking but emotionally vulnerable heroine, [<i>Graceling</i>] should appeal to fans of recent girl-power urban fantasies, as well as readers who've graduated from Tamora Pierce's Tortall series."--<i>Horn Book</i></p><p>"Cashore strikes a strong balance between adventure, drama and romance--bloody battles and sexual tension co-exist in equal measure--and Katsa's combination of pride in her unique talents and vulnerability in her self-doubts make her a strongly sympathetic character. Readers will identify closely with this young woman, whose coming of age also involves coming to terms with a talent that is both a blessing and a curse."--<i>BookPage</i>, November 2008</p><p>"<i>Graceling </i>is the wonderful new book by Kristin Cashore about a girl with grace, but who is no Audrey Hepburn. Katsa's extreme special skill, her 'grace, ' is that she's able to kill people with her bare hands (ouch). In a world of seven kingdoms, Katsa is certainly considered a bad-ass and is respectably feared. Ultimately though, the graceling ends up being shamelessly used by her own family to fight and torture their enemies... until she meets Po . . . There's been a ton of early praise about this debut novel -- so much so that I think it's safe to say there's an official buzz."--Ypulse</p><p>"However, as in every season, a few other titles have risen to the surface as potential hits, based on pre-pub buzz, online chatter and word-of-mouth. We've singled out four for particular notice: three are inventive fantasy novels, and one is a harrowing memoir. Publishers and booksellers alike believe these books have what it takes to cut through the noise of a very full season."--<i>Publishers Weekly </i>online</p><p>"The teenage characters in this novel, like those we may know in life, grow into their graces. They realize that their monstrous individuality is not so monstrous afterall."--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></p><p>"Discovering one's true identity and powers is a common theme in young adult literature, but Kristin Cashore, with compelling characters and an ease in combining genres--fantasy, mystery, adventure, romance--develops this theme with enormous freshness."--<i>Newsday</i></p><p>" 'Graceling' offers a fresh view of the process of learning self-mastery and has a knee-weakening romance that easily rivals that of 'Twilight'."--<i>LA Times</i></p><p><b>ADVANCE PRAISE FOR <i>Graceling: </i></b></p><p>"Here's a WOW of a book! Seeing half-wild Katsa learn humanity as she battles soldiers, storms, and her own obsessive nature--I HAD to know how it ended!" --Tamora Pierce</p><p>"Katsa and Po are wonderful: They make me want to cheer. Due to a strong heroine, a supportive hero, political intrigue, and action throughout, this is a book I'll share with my daughter." --Melissa Marr, author of <i>Wicked Lovely</i></p><p>"I can't remember when I last was this impressed by a new fantasy. Kristin Cashore's voice is fresh and fluent...the end result is a story that you tear through so that you can immediately start again at the beginning and read it with the care it deserves. A truly spectacular novel." --Susan Hirschman, founder of Greenwillow Books</p><p><b>FROM THE AUTHOR: </b></p><p>"I've always been a daydreamer; as a child I always lived far from school, and distinctly remember cherishing the long drive, because it was good daydreaming time. <i>Graceling</i> grew from daydreams I had about a girl with extraordinary fighting powers who loved a boy with whom she was insurmountably incompatible." --Kristin Cashore</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>KRISTIN CASHORE</b> has written for <i>The Horn Book Guide, </i><i>The Looking Glass: An Online Children's Literature Journal, </i> and <i>Children's Literature in Education</i>. She received a master's degree in children's literature from Simmons College. <i>Graceling </i>is Ms.Cashore's first novel. She lives in Jacksonville, Florida.<b></b>
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