Graceling

Alright, so... I wanted to like this book, I really did. However, pretty much as soon as I picked it up I wanted to put it down. Seriously, I constantly found other things to do as soon as I started a page.
If it wasn't for the audiobook I may never have gotten past the first couple chapters.

I found Katsa to be super annoying, childish, and unlikable. Po was better but, how did this guy who came off as at least a bit more mature fall in love with this childish teenager? Po seems like a bit of a martyr, he's a prince that's not like other princes, he likes that he has the smallest castle and is last in line, he has to hide his grace, he even takes his blindness with the acceptance of a saint. The only reason I'll give this two stars is because I give one stars to the books I actually loath and I didn't loath this, I was just really, really, really bored. I wanted it to end about 10 chapters before it did and had to drag myself through it. Their romance seemed shoehorned in to me, like the author was told that it needed to have a romance because it was YA. I didn't care about them or their love. honestly would've been better if it was just Katsa going to find and save Bitterblue. Or if it was told partially in Po's POV as well.

Like the last book I read, if it hadn't been on a list of books I'm trying to read through I probably would've DNF'd it.