not my fav book by my fav author
3 stars
this and the first Earthsea book are really just not my cup of tea
School & Library Binding, 259 pages
English language
Published Sept. 11, 2001 by Tandem Library.
this and the first Earthsea book are really just not my cup of tea
This book has a strong message about the necessity of death, imagining what happens when immortality is possible.
Content warning mild spoilers inside
A lovely third instalment of the Earthsea series, and a good handoff from it being all Ged's story to broadening out. A few off notes though:
I gather that the later books were in part a deliberate effort by an older Le Guin to fix some of the deficiencies of the first 3, especially around gender (even in Tombs of Atuan, I found Tenar more a captive who has things happen to her than a full actor). As much as I did enjoy this one, it's made me look forward to those even more.