Tehanu

"What cannot be healed must be transcended." Spoilers follow, as well as some discussion of child sexual abuse. So What's It About? Tenar, last seen as a teenage girl in The Tombs of Atuan, is now well into middle age and widowhood. After having felt adrift for some time, she finds a new sense of purpo......more

Of all the fantasy realms I’ve read about, lived in, imagined, there is only one I prefer to Earthsea and that’s Tolkien’s. So I hope that illustrates how highly I regard this series. Earthsea is beautiful and as eloquently described as ever in Tehanu. There’s just something about the careful way Le......more

This is the fantasy book that I've always hoped would be written but thought impossible in the genre: a beautifully crafted tale of humanity where the magic and dragons take the back seat. It's ok if it isn't the best fantasy you've ever read, but to me it's the most perfect fantasy novel. It makes......more

This book is quite different from the rest of the serious although it continues the plot of The Furthest Shore. It has a lot of misogyny and violence against women. The characters are annoying - sometimes it's hard to understand their motives and stupid actions. And endless philosophical conversatio......more

I’m finding it increasingly difficult to articulate how and why the genius writer Ursula K. Le Guin’s work pierces my soul as I read more and more of it. There is so much hard-earned, plainspoken, painful, loving wisdom in this book. It feels like she absorbed everything that she had created in the......more