Graceling - Kristin Cashore

This book has been described as one of the best début novels of the year, and for me they are right. It has a way of drawing you in and forcing you to keep reading. I didn't put it down from cover to cover. It has a way of putting you in the scene and making you understand what is going on. The book is set in a world where a small percentage of people are gifted with "graces," which make them brilliant at a particular ability. These gifts could be in anything from swimming to mind reading. However these gracelings are also shunned by regular people, as the physical manifestation of their grace is the changing of their eye colour so they have two ...  Read the complete review