Reviews tagging 'Child death'

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

35 reviews

loveyoulike's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

took me quite a while to like but my god once i rlly got into it i got

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, and Violence

hwright93's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Child death

onalark's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Misogyny

Minor: Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Physical abuse

shadereads's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Child death and Animal death

toffishay's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book is short, but it still takes its time to introduce us to Ged to help us understand him and see how a great wizard gets his start. We follow his journey from boyhood to early manhood, from foolish youth to a man who understands the error of his ways and what must be done to face the consequences of our actions. I liked the pace of the book. The edition that I have has an afterword from the author, where she says that there are no wars in Earthsea; people are tested by themselves and by the world to be better. And you feel that in this book. Ged is tested by his own hubris to overcome or to perish. I see Earthsea not as a text to consume, but as a world to live in and I want to follow more. Explore more. Be an adventurer in my own right.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death and Child death

amariereads's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Child death

Minor: Slavery

tinyelfarcanist's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I'm more accustomed to reading contemporary works, so the page-long paragraphs were a bit daunting at first. 

It's narrated as a biography of the great wizard Sparrowhawk. It has a distant feeling as if you were looking at the events through a veil. I enjoyed it regardless, the characters' motivations felt genuine, and I noticed homoromantic undertones in the interactions between the protagonist and his best friend.

There's a reason this one is a classic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Stalking, and Child death

Moderate: Death and Animal death

Minor: Child abuse

kerttuli's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Animal death, and Death

Minor: Slavery, Child abuse, Misogyny, and Sexism

nerdkitten's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Medical content, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Child death, Animal death, Body horror, Infidelity, War, Death, and Slavery

Minor: Child abuse, Excrement, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Bullying

lectora_nocturna's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death