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A review by adamgolden
The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
3.0
(3.5/5★)
The Farthest Shore concludes the original trilogy of the Earthsea cycle, chronicling Sparrowhawk's (or Ged's) adventures throughout the world that Ursula K. Le Guin so vividly created. While I did enjoy this novel, I was a bit disappointed to see Ged's story end so soon. While it wasn't necessarily an abrupt ending, the transition from his boyhood to manhood happened in the blink of an eye. While the plot of the book might be the most fleshed out of the trilogy, it was probably the least interesting of the three, or at least the most generic, plodding along most of the way except for the ending. That being said, I'm glad to have gotten an ending to a trilogy that was never meant to happen.
The Farthest Shore concludes the original trilogy of the Earthsea cycle, chronicling Sparrowhawk's (or Ged's) adventures throughout the world that Ursula K. Le Guin so vividly created. While I did enjoy this novel, I was a bit disappointed to see Ged's story end so soon. While it wasn't necessarily an abrupt ending, the transition from his boyhood to manhood happened in the blink of an eye. While the plot of the book might be the most fleshed out of the trilogy, it was probably the least interesting of the three, or at least the most generic, plodding along most of the way except for the ending. That being said, I'm glad to have gotten an ending to a trilogy that was never meant to happen.