Review – Graceling by Kristin Cashore

graceling” ‘I know a Graceling when I see one.’  He jabbed with his sword, and she rolled out of the way.  ‘Let me see the colors of your eyes, boy.  I’ll cut them out.  Don’t think I won’t.’

It gave her some pleasure to know him on the head with the hilt of her knife.  [...]  They would all say, when they woke to their headaches and their shame, that the culprit had been a Graceling boy, Graced with fighting, acting alone.  They would assume she was a boy, because in her plain trousers and hood she looked like one, and because when people were attacked it never occurred to anyone that it might have been a girl.  [...]

No one would think of her.  Whatever the Graceling Lady Katsa might be, she was not a criminal who lurked around dark courtyards at midnight, disguised.”

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