Graceling (Graceling Realm, #1)

by Kristin Cashore

When you’re a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster.

So confident. He didn’t imagine she could refuse him.

‘You’re not an unnatural woman, Katsa. You can fight as other women can’t, but you’re not so different from other women. You’ll want babies. I’m certain of it.’ She hadn’t expected to have such an immediate opportunity to practise containing her temper.