Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

13 reviews

pandemonicbaby's review against another edition

adventurous reflective relaxing medium-paced

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

4.75

Ursula Le Guin's writing is simply phenomenal. This book has so many great lessons to teach, about friendship, about living in tandem with nature, about discovering oneself.

I had a feeling the shadow's name was going to be Ged, that it would represent an aspect of himself that he had yet to accept. When that did happen in the end, it felt very cathartic to me. Like a coming-of-age story, Ged had finally understood who he was and who he needed to be, for himself.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Violence, and Animal death

Minor: Xenophobia, Blood, Slavery, Death of parent, Colonisation, and War

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

I enjoyed the story of this book. But I never entirely adjusted to Le Guin's distanced style of storytelling. For me, a book to read once and enjoy, but not one to reread and love.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Sexism, Death, Child death, and Animal death

Minor: War, Slavery, Murder, Child abuse, and Death of parent

marsh_mall0w's review

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious 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

Graphic: Stalking, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexism

Moderate: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Child abuse and Suicidal thoughts

doomluz's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-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

3.5

I liked the world building and the magic. It was well-written, but kind of slow paced.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Child death

Minor: Slavery

saltycoffee's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Moderate: War, Classism, Animal death, Bullying, and Child death

Minor: Slavery

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

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

rieviolet's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

It has been a really long time since I've read any fantasy book (it used to be my most read genre during my teenage years), so I started reading with very few expectations and I have to say I was very pleasantly surprised.

I really liked Le Guin's writing style and worldbuilding. Most of all, I really appreciated how she subtly but effectively wove the different themes into the main character's coming of age story. 

I look forward to slowly making my way through the entire series. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Violence, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Minor: War, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

amulholland's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Slavery and Injury/Injury detail