By Greg Myers

Graceling is a book by Kristen Cashore. There are people in the world who are born with Graces. People with Graces have two different colored eyes and have special abilities. A Grace can be anything, it could be cooking, archery, sword fighting, hand to hand combat, mind reading, etc. The book follows Katsa, the niece of King Randa of the Middluns. Katsa has the Grace of killing. King Randa uses his niece’s Grace to strike fear into his subjects and to punish people who double cross him. Everyone fears the lady with one green eye and one blue eye. Katsa hates her own Grace. Katsa created the Council to help people, and she didn’t think it would spread outside of her, but there are Council members in all seven kingdoms. Her life changes when she meets a Graceling fighter while on a Council mission and the travel the kingdoms and discover a secret that threatens all seven kingdoms.