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aloy's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
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
4.25
Moderate: Confinement
Minor: Fatphobia, Violence, and Child abuse
sweekune's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Le Guin weaves magic and journeys like no one I've read before. As with A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan start slowly and small but get bigger and more exquisitely detailed as the story goes on. I loved how the world of the temple village was built up and how in so few words she created such an ambiance and reality to the places she described. Arha and Sparrowhawk's interaction were also so well written and there are several quotations that I will remember for a long time, my favourite being:
"What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveller may never reach the end of it."
If that doesn't describe this book, and life in general, to a tee, I don't know what would.
"What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveller may never reach the end of it."
If that doesn't describe this book, and life in general, to a tee, I don't know what would.
Moderate: Confinement
Minor: Child abuse
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