So, as excruciating as it is to sit in a car for 12 hours with 4 other people as you drive to Florida, there is one positive thing about all that down-time, and that is reading! On the way there I slept or drove and it was too dark to read (though I did listen to some of Gregor and the Prophecy of the Bane), but on the way back I read the most wonderful book: First of all, isn't the cover gorgeous? My sister didn't think so, but I do. Here's the summary of the book from amazon.com: Graceling takes readers inside the world of Katsa, a warrior-girl in her late teens with one blue eye and one green eye. This gives her haunting beauty, but also marks her as a Graceling. Gracelings are beings with special talents—swimming, storytelling, dancing. Katsa's Grace is considered more useful: her ability to fight (and kill, if she wanted to) is unequaled in the seven kingdoms. Forced to act as a henchman for a manipulative king, Katsa channels her guilt by forming a secret council...
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