A review by lapis
Graceling by Kristin Cashore

dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

This book reads really differently in 2020 than it did when I read it in 2013. I hate that this book is so relevant now.

Also a bit of disability politics in here that I didn't notice in 2013:

If you disable a character but make their magic skill so the disability doesn't matter, it's effectively meaningless

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Pedophilia

Gaslighting

That's the premise of this book. There's implied other abuses, and implied pedophilia.