Reviews - A Wizard of Earthsea

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A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin

3.89 AVERAGE

elishamuir's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional 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

No wonder this is so beloved. Le Guin brings a mythic quality to her delightful fantasy tale, giving the feeling of a saga or song of heroes long past from a faraway culture. The world she crafts is so real and tangible, and her vision of magic as song and language is singular. A must read and I feel dumb for waiting on it.

camiz_'s review against another edition

3.0

adventurous relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

louisaspillman's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

tramadollie's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous 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

Kind of hard to approach this book written almost 60 years ago. A lot of firsts. One of the first brown-skin main character in the budding UK/Northern European centered fantasy genre, multiple black characters.. It's weird that it's so.. formulaic in a way that's hard to describe. I guess that's the main problem with reading the precursors well after reading/watching/playing all of the stories that took Earthsea's colors and painted an infinity of other things with it.

Still a pretty good read, and a short one so definitely worth.

nanitiq's review against another edition

3.5

challenging reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lolol999asdf's review against another edition

1.0

Could NOT stand the style of this book... I was really looking forward to reading one of the "classics" of fantasy too. I stopped reading fiction altogether for a few months because I was so bored by this book.

styxis's review against another edition

3.0

It was essentially a good book, but I had to read it for university and after I couldn't attend the classes anymore I didn't have the motivation to finish this