Posted by bkristin on Nov 9th, 2012 in reviews | 0 comments
Review: Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore Bitterblue is now eighteen and queen. Unfortunately she is left a great mess to clean up by her dead father, crazy King Leck. To make matters worse, she is kept busy in her office from morning to night will all the new orders she must go over and sign. Can she pull her kingdom back together before her own people start to revolt like the kingdoms around her? I like the style of Cashore’s writing. I find it easy to read even when thing diverge into information that is not completely relevant to the plot. It is still fun to read all the side details. The plot...
Posted by bkristin on Jun 22nd, 2012 in reviews | 2 comments
Review: Fire by Kristin Cashore On the other side of the mountain from the realms populated by the gracelings is a different world of monsters: the Dells. Fire is the last of the human monsters (animals that are very similar to normal, but have striking beauty and are very much noticeably different in coloring). Fire has the ability to control minds, but she must decide what makes her a monster: her ability or her decisions. This story was a bit dramatic taking turns which were (for the most part) expected. Several characters were sleeping around (to the point that you could almost make all the main...
Posted by bkristin on Mar 23rd, 2012 in reviews | 4 comments
Review: Graceling by Kristin Cashore Katsu is graced with killing. A bit of an odd grace for a woman but one that shaped her into the character she was-not what she could become. On an undercover rescue mission, Katsu meets Po, and man graced with fighting. He finally meets his match. Along their adventure to find out why his grandfather was kidnapped, he teaches her more about herself than she could ever have guessed. Out of all the books I have read thus far, this was the catchiest opening. From the start, you jumped into the action and told only bits of the world, enough to take a breath and...
