Posts Categorized / The Graceling Series

By Kristin Cashore. Book #1 in The Graceling Series. Grade: A

I found this book while searching for a new one after reading The Scorch Trials. I was a little skeptical and actually passed on it the first time I went to Chapters. But when I decided against one I had bought and traded it in. What a good idea! Here is the summary from the back cover.

Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight. She is a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the kings thug.

By Kristin Cashore. Book #2 in The Graceling Series. Grade: A

This book is the Prequel to Graceling. It is a romantic, adventure fantasy novel about a beautiful “Monster” named Fire. There are Queens, Kings, assassinations, wars and love, everything you could possibly need in a novel to keep you interested. Or at least for me there was. Here’s the back cover, lets see if it pulls you in like it did me.

She is the last of her kind…

It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. In King City, the young King Nash is clinging to the throne, while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. War is coming. And the mountains and forest are filled with spies and thieves.