Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature 2009.
Sometimes nothing but a Grace can save you
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 behavior of the seven kings – after all, the Middluns is
only one of the seven kingdoms, and each of them is ruled its own king
with his own 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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Kristin Cashore is an American fantasy author.
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