A woman blessed with kindness, blessed with healing abilities blessed with cooking, but have anyone ever heard of a woman blessed or as the book says ‘graced’ with fighting? This, is what his novel is about. The first thing that the book informs about are ‘gracelings’, a type of blessed people that has their own unique specialities. The way to identify these ‘gracelings’ are to look at their eyes. Each of their pupils have a different colour and each graceling have their own their own combination of pupils. To be more describable, some combinations might be like white and black, red and yellow, orange and purple and any other. The main character of this novel is Katsa, niece of the king of Middluns, one of the five nations. Katsa’s story begins with her punching her distinct cousin’s nose so hard that it broke and the fragments went into his brain and he died because he wanted to touch her hair. After that event every one feared and stayed away from her, but the king learned that his own niece was a graced fighter and he fully intended to train her to assassinate people and use her as a secret weapon of terror. But Katsa refused to kill anyone and she trained in a way that she would disarm and disable people but not hurt or kill them. After ten years of training she was put to missions for the king. Because she was royalty she had to join her uncle at dinners and other royal things. Because she wanted her own freedom, she started her own secret organization that took care of unfair activities that went through in the five nations. Soon her organization grew rapidly and they started taking care of bigger things while staying a secret. This is the only things that the novel says till now, which explains that even though she under the influence of someone powerful she could do something greater with her abilities that would do great good to