Graceling

Resumen del libro

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?

Biografía del autor

Kristin Cashore es la segunda de cuatro hermanas. Ha escrito para varias publicaciones juveniles y tiene un master en literatura juvenil por el Simmons College. Ha trabajado como paseadora de perros, empaquetadora de caramelos y ayudante de editor, entre otras cosas y ha vivido en Boston, Nueva York y Sydney antes de instalarse en Jacksonville, Florida, donde cada día sale a pasear por la orilla del río y contempla a los pelícanos.