Saturday, 7 May 2016

Review - Graceling

21. Graceling by Kristin Cashore (4.5 stars)


I have deliberated about changing my 4 stars to 5 so have gone for 4.5 here to illustrate that!
You will love this one too. Reminded me a bit of throne of glass series, and a bit of chronicles of ixia books.  Has that type of setting that I love (think I mentioned this in a previous post) but where it's sort of medieval but also fantasy/magical.  What makes people 'different' in this world is referred to as what they are 'graced' with which I thought was a really cool description and although of course we have read lots of books where people have special talents/gifts etc, the way this was handled was still original I thought. 
The characters are great (you will love the main male character I know) and this was a really enjoyable read, that I didn't want to put down.  I have looked up the others in the trilogy.  Turns out the second one (Fire) is described as a companion to this one - I have read the first chapter as is at the end of this one, and already really interested to read it, but does seem to be describing a very different world, so will be interesting to see how the two link together. The third one then is named after a cool character from this first one so excited to read that too:)

Highly recommended!

Lila 

No comments:

Post a Comment