So... the book spends the first half setting up characters, plots, and intrigues which turn out to be irrelevant...The main character of the series doesn't show up until halfway through the book, doesn't particularly do anything, and for being a wizard, uses surprisingly little magic, if any at all....
Had a really hard time getting into this, but it had me by the end. Liked it much better than A Wizard of Earthsea. That one was too scattered for me, but once I got past my initial aversion with this one (a lot of it probably left over from reading the first one), I got caught up in the story of Ar...
In reality 4.5 stars.I really enjoyed this installment in the Earthsea Cycle. The beautifully drawn characters and palpable atmosphere were a delight. I just wish there was more of it. At 146 pages this is more of a long novella than a novel.This is fantasy for the teen/pre-teen audience and so la...
When I first tried reading this in my teens I could not manage to go beyond 50 pages because I wanted Ged (AKA Sparrowhawk), the hero of the previous volume A Wizard of Earthsea, to show up and follow him on new adventures. What I found instead was a story of an entirely new protagonist, a young gir...
I recall an old gamers' joke about how the best magical item in the setting of The Lord of the Rings is a cursed Ring of Invisibility. In The Tombs of Atuan, the best magical item is also a ring, apparently, that bears "the sign of dominion, the sign of peace," without which "no king could rule wel...
Of course, once I finished reading A Wizard of Earthsea, I wanted to continue reading about this world that Ursula LeGuin had created, especially since I was so pleasantly surprised by how different the books were from the horrid SciFi Channel miniseries, which tried unsuccessfully to combine these ...
This is the second book in the Earthsea Cycle. Plot-wise it's not as good as A Wizard of Earthsea, but the writing is better. It has such wonderful fluidity that I read the entire book in just a few hours. For that I can give it four stars, though the story lacks the magic and adventure of the fi...
A young woman with two names and an identity crisis serves shadowy gods in a deep light-less cave until a young man enters her cave for the first time bearing a light, and then a sexual metaphor hits you over the head.
It was good. I kind of skimmed parts of it. I just have this thing about descriptions of landscapes. It's a very slight story and I'm sure I won't remember what it was about in 2 months (note to self: young girl confronts darkness both literal AND metaphorical). It's not a book with a lot of peaks a...
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