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Graceling

AuthorKristin Cashore

NarratorEmma Powell

SeriesGraceling Realm, Book 1

Duration13h 32m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy

PublisherOrion

VersionUnabridged

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In a world where people born with an exceptional skill, known as a Grace, are feared and exploited, Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. She lives under the command of her Uncle Randa, King of the Middluns, and is expected to carry out his dirty work, punnishing and torturing anyone who displeases him. Breaking arms and cutting off fingers are her stock-in-trade. Finding life under his rule increasingly unbearable Katsa forms an underground Council, whose purpose is to combat the destructive behaviour of the seven kings - after all, the Middluns is only one of the Seven Kingdoms, each of them ruled by their own king and his personal agenda for power.When the Council hears that the King of Liend's father has been kidnapped Katsa investigates . . . and stumbles across a mystery. Who would want to kidnap him, and why? And who was the extraordinary Graced fighter who challenged her fighting skills, for the first time, as she and the Council rushed the old man to saftey? Something dark and deadly is rising in the north and creeping across the continent, and behind it all lurks the shadowy figure of a one-eyed king.

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Stephanie 30 Jan 2024

Lovely story

I really enjoyed this story, it's more a love story with drama & a bit of fantasy thrown in rather than an epic world building type story, but there's plenty enough excitement to keep you turning the pages.

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