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Katsa has two different colored eyes, one blue and one green. In the seven kingdoms, two different colored eyes let the world know that person has a special skill or grace. The skill could be storytelling, dancing, fighting, sheep-herding, anything really.
Katsa discovered her grace when she was just 8 years old. A man visiting her uncle’s court frightened her, she struck him, and he died. Katsa’s grace is killing. With this grace she might have been banished or locked up, but her uncle saw the potential.
Her uncle is King Randa of the Middluns and he is very clever. He realizes that Katsa can be very useful to him. She becomes his enforcer. As the years pass, the people of the seven kingdoms know that if Lady Katsa comes for you, the king is very angry. There will be pain and there may be death. You don’t want this Graceling to come after you.
But Lady Katsa is tired of being used and she doesn’t agree with many of the King’s decisions. She forms a secret group to bring justice to the Middluns. Out on a mission to free an old man from imprisonment, she meets a mysterious stranger.
Later she learns he is Po, Prince of the island kingdom of Lienid. He is also graced, with the skill of combat. Soon the two have become training partners; no one can fight like the two of them. Katsa and Po realize there is much more between them than fighting. Po is looking for his missing grandfather and Katsa joins the search. The two of them learn that there is much more danger in the seven kingdoms than anyone realizes and they may need more than their combat skills to defeat it.
--Reprinted by permission from Multnomah County Library Youth Services and Amy Clark
Read about author, Kristin Cashore.
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