Kristin Cashore – författare

Serien De utvalda gjorde succé över hela världen, vann priser och såldes i 1,7 miljoner exemplar.

Äntligen har författaren Kristin Cashore återvänt till den fantastiska värld hon skapat! En värld av utvalda, som föds med särskilda förmågor. En värld av äventyr, magi, hjältinnor och hjältar. Men också en värld av tyranner och fruktansvärd, psykisk terror. En värld som behöver byggas upp igen.

Den femte boken i den bästsäljande serien fokuserar på Hava, drottning Bitterblues spion. Drottningens sällskap är på väg över havet för att ta sig hem till Monsea. Med ombord finns de hemliga ritningarna till ett vapen som är så farligt att det kan förändra hela världen. Sällskapet råkar ut för en mängd livsfarliga strapatser, och Hava vet inte hur hon ska hantera livet i efterdyningarna av en fruktansvärd barndom vid hovet och sitt nya liv.

Fängslande, känsloladdad fantasy som läsare över hela världen har fastnat för.

Make the harrowing journey home with Queen Bitterblue's sister and spy, in the fifth novel in the bestselling Graceling Realm series.

Hava sails across the sea toward Monsea with her sister, the royal entourage, and the world's only copies of the formulas for the zilfium weapon she saved at the end of Winterkeep. During the crossing, Hava makes an unexpected discovery about one of the ship's crew, but before she can unravel the mystery, storms drive their ship off course, wrecking them in the ice far north of the Royal Continent. The survivors must endure a harrowing trek across the ice to make it back to Monsea.

And while Queen Bitterblue grapples with how to carry the responsibility of a weapon that will change the world, Hava has a few more mysteries to solve-and a decision to make about who she wants to be in the new world Bitterblue will build.

Stig in i en helt ny värld! Serien om De utvalda är en läsupplevelse utöver det vanliga!

Bitterblue har alltid levt i skuggan av sin ondskefulle far, kung Leck. Han styrde som tyrann över sitt rike och bröt ner sitt folks vilja. När Bitterblue var tio år gammal mördades han, och Bitterblue blev drottning.

Åtta år senare kämpar hon för att få kungariket på fötter. Den onde kungens påverkan lever kvar och Bitterblue känner sig fångad. Hon börjar smyga ut ur slottet för att få gå på gatorna i sin egen stad. Då möter hon två tjuvar som har nyckeln till sanningen om Lecks makt. Och en av dem, med en mycket ovanlig begåvning, blir väldigt speciell för Bitterblue …

Otroligt stark och känsloladdad fantasy som griper tag direkt! Spänning, action, kärlek och karaktärer man inte vill släppa. Hemligheternas rike är tredje, fristående boken i serien De utvalda.

Sjuttonåriga Flamma kan läsa människors sinnen och styra deras vilja. Hela hennes väsen är förföriskt, men folk minns hennes elake döde far och undrar om dottern är likadan. Flamma vill bevisa att hon inte alls är som sin far. Med hjälp av sina krafter försöker hon avstyra ett hotande krig. Hon börjar inse den fulla vidden av sin styrka och den skrämmer henne. Kommer hon att bli ett lika fruktansvärt monster som hennes far var, eller kan hon använda sin förmåga till att göra gott?

Monstrets dotter är en mörk, känslosam berättelse som förtrollar och berör. Författaren Kristin Cashore har skapat sin egen nisch som unik fantasyförfattare med känsla både för trovärdiga karaktärer och en andlöst spännande intrig som man bara måste följa till slutet.

Discover the Graceling Realm in this unforgettable, award-winning novel from bestselling author Kristin Cashore.

A New York Times bestseller * ALA Best Book for Young Adults * Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children''s Literature Winner * Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist, and BCCB Best Book of the Year

“Rageful, exhilarating, wistful in turns"" (New York Times Book Review) with “a knee weakening romance” (Los Angeles Times). Graceling is a thrilling, action-packed fantasy adventure that will resonate deeply with anyone trying to find their way in the world.

Graceling tells the story of the vulnerable-yet-strong Katsa, who is smart and beautiful and lives in the Seven Kingdoms where selected people are born with a Grace, a special talent that can be anything at all. Katsa’s Grace is killing.

As the king’s niece, she is forced to use her extreme skills as his brutal enforcer. Until the day she meets Prince Po, who is Graced with combat skills, and Katsa’s life begins to change. She never expects to become Po’s friend. She never expects to learn a new truth about her own Grace—or about a terrible secret that lies hidden far away . . . a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone.

And don’t miss the sequel, Fire, and companion, Bitterblue, both award-winning New York Times bestsellers featuring Kristin Cashore’s elegant, evocative prose and unforgettable characters. 

In a world where people born with an exceptional skill, known as a Grace, are feared and exploited, Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. She lives under the command of her Uncle Randa, King of the Middluns, and is expected to carry out his dirty work, punishing and torturing anyone who displeases him. Breaking arms and cutting off fingers are her stock-in-trade. Finding life under his rule increasingly unbearable, Katsa forms an underground Council whose purpose is to combat the destructive behaviour of the seven kings - after all, the Middluns is only one of the Seven Kingdoms, each of them ruled by their own king and his personal agenda for power.When the Council hears that the King of Liend''s father has been kidnapped Katsa investigates ... and stumbles across a mystery. Who would want to kidnap him, and why? And who was the extraordinary Graced fighter who challenged her fighting skills, for the first time, as she and the Council rushed the old man to saftey?Something dark and deadly is rising in the north and creeping across the continent, and behind it all lurks the shadowy figure of a one-eyed king ...

A must-read title for all fans of Patrick Rothfuss and Trudi Canavan, Fire will have you hooked on its gripping action, political intrigue, and beautiful central relationship.''The book is REALLY good. Reading it made me very, very happy!'' Tamora Pierce

Return to Kristin Cashore''s captivating Graceling Realm with a heart-wrenching tale set eight years after the events of Fire

The fifth novel in the bestselling and award-winning Graceling Realm series focuses on Hava, Queen Bitterblue''s spy, and her harrowing journey back to Monsea after the events of 2021''s Winterkeep.In the immediate aftermath of the events of Winterkeep, Bitterblue and her entourage begin the journey back to Monsea with the only copies of the formulas for the zilphium weapon. Bitterblue must decide what she will do with her world-shaping power. But before they''ve even made it halfway home, storms drive their ship off course and then they wreck in the ice far north of the Royal Continent. The survivors must make a harrowing trek across the ice in order to make it back to Monsea.Seasparrow is told entirely from the point of view of Hava, Bitterblue''s personal spy and secret half sister. And while Bitterblue grapples with how to carry the responsibility of a weapon of mass destruction, Hava must decide what she will do with herself in the new world Bitterblue will make.

A new land has been discovered to the east. Winterkeep is a land of miracles, a democratic republic run by people who like each other, where people speak to telepathic sea creatures, adopt telepathic foxes as pets, and fly across the sky in ships attached to balloons. But when Bitterblue''s envoys to Winterkeep drown under suspicious circumstances, she and Giddon and her half-sister, Hava, set off to discover the truth--putting both Bitterblue''s life and Giddon''s heart to the test when Bitterblue is kidnapped. Giddon believes she has drowned, leaving him and Hava to solve the mystery of what''s wrong in Winterkeep.Lovisa Cavenda is the teenage daughter of a powerful Scholar and Industrialist (the opposing governing parties) with a fire inside her that is always hungry, always just nearly about to make something happen. She is the key to everything, but only if she can figure out what''s going on before anyone else, and only if she''s willing to transcend the person she''s been all her life.