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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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, and Violence
alexalily's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, and Violence
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
k_aro's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
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
A very good fantasy novel! It's for good reason that Ursula K. LeGuin is as famous as she is for fantasy. It's definitely a very different experience from a lot of 'traditional' fantasy novels (I'm thinking Harry Potter, really) in that it explores the emotional core of Ged far more than what funny magic hijinks he can get himself in and out of. Plus, the mistakes Ged makes being the literal plot is kind of funny on a meta level but also interesting in a literary way (though nowadays it feels a little derivative).
It also kind of reminds me of the Witcher books in the way that the Witcher and Dandelion feel very much like buddies rather than the weird sort of sexual tension that's on display in the Netflix show (which is not a negative review for the Netflix show).
I'd love to read more of the Earthsea cycle, it feels so full of life and in some ways reminds me of the Kingkiller Chronicle, so I guess it fills that void haha.
It also kind of reminds me of the Witcher books in the way that the Witcher and Dandelion feel very much like buddies rather than the weird sort of sexual tension that's on display in the Netflix show (which is not a negative review for the Netflix show).
I'd love to read more of the Earthsea cycle, it feels so full of life and in some ways reminds me of the Kingkiller Chronicle, so I guess it fills that void haha.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence, Child death, Animal death, and Medical content
I guess it's kind of weird to give 'proper' content warnings, especially for fantasy... all these do happen but in the sort of vaguely-but-also-sort-of-concretely consequence way.jodean's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death and Violence
Minor: Animal death
beesknees's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
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
A Wizard of Earthsea is a strong start to a series of books set in this universe, which is exactly what Le Guin used this book as. This book tells the story of Ged, a wizard of this world of Earthsea which you get to travel through. As you read, you follow his life story, starting with childhood. I loved watching Ged grow from a curious child to a wise adult. By the end of the story, I was eager to begin reading the next story in the series of Earthsea. One other thing I feel it important to mention, as does Le Guin in her afterward of this story, is that Ged's story is not one told through the lens of war, which is refreshing, and opens up more avenues through which this main character can learn to understand himself.
Content Warnings
Minor: Death and Violence
phily_g_123's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror and Violence
Minor: War and Sexism