Kristin Cashore, Fantasy | Romance | Adult & Young Adult Options

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Kristin Cashore Audiobooks

About the author:
American author Kristin Cashore is an exceptional new voice in the fantasy genre. Her debut novel Graceling, is a Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and a finalist for the prestigious Andre Norton Award and the Indies Choice Book Awards.

Audiobooks:

Stand-alone:*
- Graceling (2008)
- Fire (2009) - Just added!

*Although, Fire is a loosely-related, prequel-ish companion to Graceling, the books are "stand-alone" novels.
Save for one person who plays a pivotal role in both books, they each have an entirely different cast of characters.

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GRACELING

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If you had the power to kill with your bare hands, what would you do with it?

Feared as a killer since her childhood, graceling Lady Katsa uses her unusual gift in the service of her uncle, King Randa. Gracelings are beings with special talent - swimming, storytelling, dancing. Katsa's Grace is considered more useful: her ability to fight and kill is unequaled in the seven kingdoms.

She is beginning to rebel against her uncle's orders to kill or maim his more disloyal subjects when her path crosses that of Po. A young foreign prince with a mysterious Grace as well as wisdom beyond his years, Po convinces Katsa that she can stand up to the brutal king and put her gift to better uses.

When Katsa joins Po on a quest, she throws herself headlong into a rescue mission and finds romance, self-knowledge, and justice along the way.

Although many fantasy writers create intriguing alternate worlds and worthy adventures, as Cashore does in this well-imagined novel, she also offers believable characters with enough depth, subtlety, and experience to satisfy older readers. Katsa is a heroine who can physically overpower most men she meets, yet her strength is not achieved by becoming manlike. She may care little for fine clothes, but from her first kill to her first experience of lovemaking, Katsa's womanhood is integral to her character.

An impressive first novel, this well-crafted and rewarding fantasy will leave readers hoping for more.

Narrators: David Baker, Chelsea Mixon, Zachary Exton (Full cast performance)
Version: Unabridged (June 2009)
Length: 12 hrs and 32 min
Format: 12 mp3 files
Bit rate: 64 kbps
Size: ~ 349 MB

UK Genre: Adult Fantasy
USA Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

CODE

http://rapidshare.com/files/251674997/Graceling.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/251661896/Graceling.part2.rar

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FIRE
A Companion to Graceling

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(Though Fire is set in the same world as Graceling, it's a stand-alone book)

She is the last of her kind...

It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. In King City, the young King Nash is clinging to the throne, while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. War is coming. And the mountains and forest are filled with spies and thieves. This is where Fire lives, a girl whose beauty is impossibly irresistible and who can control the minds of everyone around her.

Exquisitely romantic, this companion to the highly praised Graceling has an entirely new cast of characters, save for one person who plays a pivotal role in both books. You don't need to have read or heard Graceling to love Fire. But if you haven't, you'll be dying to listen to it next.

Audio Release: October 2009
Narrator: Xanthe Elbrick
Version: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 41 min
Format: 2 mp3 files
Bit rate: 32 kbps
Size: ~ 175 MB

CODE

http://rapidshare.com/files/295598697/KC-FIRE.rar

*Credit and thanks to the original uploader*