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A review by capyval
Tales From Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
5.0
This book is meant to be read only after you have read the four Earthsea novels, for that reason my review will have some spoilers from those previous books, without being very specific.
I read the Earthsea quartet by the end of 2020. It was not love at first sight, I remember when I read the first few pages of A Wizard of Earthsea I got bored at first and put the book aside for several weeks. But I knew I had to give it a second chance, and I'm very glad I did.
As you may read in almost any review, this book contains novellas and short stories. They take place in different moments of the history of Earthsea. Wizardry is the main theme in all of them, as it's always in Earthsea, but all what Tehanu brought to discussion is key now. Women and sorcery; love, sexuality and wizardry, are all developed in this book. There is also a section, by the end of the book, where Le Guin explains many things from this world: the history, languages, historical characters (basically, those legends or stories that we read mentioned so many times) and some more interesting facts.
The Foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin are incredible and inspiring. I don't normally feel comfortable praising authors or artists in general, but damn, I really like what she wrote and how she wrote it.
Perhaps one of my favourite things about Earthsea is how the style evolves and how the world and the type of story do as well. In my Earthsea quartet review I said I loved how Le Guin told us from the beginning what was going to happen to Ged, and so what we enjoyed was the ride. I must say I couldn't have predicted, even knowing that Le Guin was a feminist, that Earthsea was going to focus on gender problematic as it ends up doing; and yet it makes so much sense, and it was done in such a perfect way, not being cheesy, boring or inflated.
Great book, great series. I can't recommend Earthsea to people enough.
I read the Earthsea quartet by the end of 2020. It was not love at first sight, I remember when I read the first few pages of A Wizard of Earthsea I got bored at first and put the book aside for several weeks. But I knew I had to give it a second chance, and I'm very glad I did.
As you may read in almost any review, this book contains novellas and short stories. They take place in different moments of the history of Earthsea. Wizardry is the main theme in all of them, as it's always in Earthsea, but all what Tehanu brought to discussion is key now. Women and sorcery; love, sexuality and wizardry, are all developed in this book. There is also a section, by the end of the book, where Le Guin explains many things from this world: the history, languages, historical characters (basically, those legends or stories that we read mentioned so many times) and some more interesting facts.
The Foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin are incredible and inspiring. I don't normally feel comfortable praising authors or artists in general, but damn, I really like what she wrote and how she wrote it.
Perhaps one of my favourite things about Earthsea is how the style evolves and how the world and the type of story do as well. In my Earthsea quartet review I said I loved how Le Guin told us from the beginning what was going to happen to Ged, and so what we enjoyed was the ride. I must say I couldn't have predicted, even knowing that Le Guin was a feminist, that Earthsea was going to focus on gender problematic as it ends up doing; and yet it makes so much sense, and it was done in such a perfect way, not being cheesy, boring or inflated.
Great book, great series. I can't recommend Earthsea to people enough.