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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
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
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
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.
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