I finished my book Graceling and I thought it was amazing. The combination if the little romance, the adventure, excitement, suspense, and defining the government was so good in this book. It all came together to form a new kind of distopian book that captures you right away. I could not wait to see what happened next and was sad when it ended. I got wrapped up in the characters emotions and what they experienced. 

Characterization

The complex character in my book is Kasta. In the beginning Kasta doesn't think she can be anything good, she thinks she is only bad news. She feels that she can't control her own body because her uncle rules over her every action, or at least the ones he sees. She does not care for many people and does not think about feelings much . But when Po comes into her life, she feels like he took the ground right out from underneath her feet. She gets trapped in his gaze and is pulled to him. That throws her off and starts the journey that will forever change her. The longer she knows Po the more he convinces her that she is her own master and can make her own decisions. That she can be good and can do very good things. He shows her the light that he sees in her that she can't see on her own. With Po helping her she starts to take control of her own life and become what she wants to be. He helps her let emotions in and shows her how to deal with them. In the end of the book Kasta now is more considerate of the people she loves and now believes she can do good and be good. And she continued to defy the evil the kings do and helps the people of the kingdoms. 

Book Recommendation

Graceling is a book filled with cliff hangers, surprising twists and turns, and it has some romance in there( kind of like a 'I'm never going to date' but falls in love kind of thing). I love these kinds of book and I think this book is one of the best. Its like the Hunger Games kind of deal, but it brings something new into the mix. I couldn't wait till I got to the end to figure out what happened but I also didn't want the book to end. Graceling is about a land with 7 kingdoms and 6 nasty kings but 1 kind one. Kasta is the niece on King Randa and has a special set of skills. She can kill in the blink of and eye or just severely hurt you. She has amazing accuracy with anything and can move faster than you can blink. These skills are called a Grace and other people have Graces too but specialize in something else. The ones that are graced have 2 different colored eyes. With no parents and no one to guide her, her uncle takes advantage of her Grace and uses it to his power. Any one who wronged him would get a visit from Kasta. But Kasta never liked doing his work and after awhile she starts a council who dose good for the people. And through the councils mission one day she meets the Graced Leined prince. After they meet each other he starts to stay at her uncles castle and she starts to fall apart. His eyes capture her and she doesn't know what's happening. Soon after they meet Po, the prince, convinced her she doesn't have to do her uncles dirty work if he didn't want to and so she stands up to her uncle and her and Po run off to find his princess cousin who is danger. They embark on what seems to be an impossible rescue mission and Po gets seriously injured. Kasta and the weak princess have to keep traveling and he I slowing them down. Kasta has to make very hard choices and fight for, not only her life, but for the lives of all the kingdoms. You have to read the book to find out what happens next. And you should.

Graceling

Right now my book is packed with suspense and turns and twists. Something new and exciting is happening on every page. 2 of the main characters are going through a deadly, never before traveled mountain pass and one is very weak. They are trying to escape an evil king with dark desires . He has the forest on either side of the main pass and the main pass covered with soldiers. The main character has to battle a mountain lion, carry the princess, and fight off the below zero coldness for her and the little princess. 

My independent reading book is called Graceling. In it some people have 2 different colored eyes and that means you have a grace. A grace is something that you excell in extreamly and unnaturaly. The main character Kasta is graced with killing. She started traing her grace when she was 8. Now her uncle, King Randa, uses her to punish those who have wronged him. But she doesnt like it one bit. She hates her grace and hates her uncle even more. He's made her image one to fear and cower from, but she doesn't want it to be like that anymore.Then she meets Po. Another graced royalty and finds freindship in him. But when everything is put to the test it might just break. With her uncle threating to kill her, her emotions welling up like never before, and new dangerous tasks coming up she has a lot to handle, How would you handle it?

Reading Skills
In my book right now Kasta and Po ride off to find out more about Po's kiddnaped grandfather. But Kasta is also running from her uncle the king of one of the seven kingdoms because she disobyed him. I predict that when she runs away, her and Po will come face to face with even bigger problems and life or death situations. More truth will be uncovered, problems through out the kingdoms will appear, and relationships will be tested. That's what I predict will happen in the book. Questions I have are: Is Kasta and Po going to fall in love? What will Randa do to Kasta? How are the seven kingdoms going to get along now that Kasta is no longer under Randa's control? A text to world connection could be that this takes place in the midevil days and they say things like 'My Lady' and 'Lord King'. It reminds me of what we learned in 7th grade. A text to self connection I have is sometimes when Kasta is around a crowd or group of people she feels alone and sometimes invisable, I can connect to this because sometimes i've felt like this before, like around new people because I don't make new friends that well. And a text to text connection I have is this book to the Divergent books because in both books if you break the rules you face very serious consicuensies, and in both books what seemed like impossible for 2 people to fall in love and stay together actually happened and although each couple faced septerte fights and conflicts they both wound up together and happy in the end.