Graceling is an interesting book. It tells the story of a girl gifted with the skill to kill and survive and how this influences her life and the people around her. There's a rite of passage style underlying the main plot where Katsa grows into her skills and is able to accept them peacefully. It's quite beautiful in parts and completely alien in others. But it all just keeps you reading.
I was slightly confused and disappointed with the ending. The two main characters fall deeply in love (Po and Katsa) but at the end, after everything they'd fought through, they just went separate ways and agreed to meet when they met. It felt a little odd. Like the tone of the book had changed. But that wasn't the first time. In a way it was like several books merged into one with large gaps in-between that blithely ignored character changes, mentally and physically. Not that this distracted majorly from the storyline. They were heroes and they risked their lives to protect the people of the seven kingdoms, and that is what it was all about. The character development seemed almost secondary to the fact that they were "big damn heroes" as a Whedon-ite would say.
No comments:
Post a Comment