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Graceling - Kristin Cashore

Graceling - Kristin Cashore

August 2, 2009

 

By an uncanny coincidence I checked this and the Here Lies Arthur book out on the same day. Don't the covers look similar?

 

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It's off to a good start. Who doesn't love an assassin with a social conscience? More community organizing, I say! Katsa is maybe a little too idealized and modern, but her manic energy and obtuseness make up for it a bit. Curious to see where the plot goes.

 

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That's a satisfying end. Two critical points move along much too quickly, they seem rushed even. I sense at least one sequel to come, and I'll probably read it.

 

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June 19, 2015

Re-reading it knowing how the other books unfold made me enjoy it more. Katsa is a cool girl who doesn't like or do anything stereotypically feminine. I'm more tolerant of that trope in a debut when I know that the author will create many more lead women who don't follow that trope.