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4.17 AVERAGE
4.17 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
In a lot of ways this felt like feminism 101: the novel. I really enjoyed the first 3, but found that this one really stepped out of the format and also still didn’t really challenge the Earthsea status quo.
I found all of the discussions ofrape in this novel to border on gratuitous for YA. I also found the age gap relationship that appeared horrifying. I prayed that it wasn’t going that way. But of course it did.
Sometimes I think being a teacher ruins my ability to enjoy YA. Because part of me still can’t figure out what young person this book is for.
I found all of the discussions of
Sometimes I think being a teacher ruins my ability to enjoy YA. Because part of me still can’t figure out what young person this book is for.
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
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:
Complicated
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
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:
Complicated
Tehanu is a very different novel to the prior trilogy, even while the continuities between them are beautifully realised. The tone of epic fantasy has largely given way to something much more concerned with economy, both of prose and in the sense of oikonomia, of householding. The leisurely wanderings of heroic mages have no place in the day-to-day hard work of farmhouse life, although beauty and splendour certainly do. Consequently reproductive labour, field work, and petty-commodity-production are the meat of this narrative, and the mighty deeds of dragons and kings drift into the periphery. The wisest men in Tehanu are the ones who pitch in around the house - without being asked. Le Guin's sharper insights as a feminist-anarchist, heretofore largely absent or buried in Earthsea, are thus core to Tehanu, and the instances of gendered violence and general misogyny encountered by the characters are often charged with a much deeper terror than the fantastical horrors of the early books.
adventurous
challenging
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:
No
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
emotional
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:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Bullying, Rape, Sexual assault
Minor: Sexual content
dark
reflective
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Misogyny, Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Rape
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
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:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
reflective
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:
No
A bit repetitive around the major point. Ending was very rushed.
I didn't mind the relationship.
I didn't mind the relationship.