titus_hjelm 's review for:

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

5.0

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This is a great example of a book you should reread if you only read it as a teenager. Back then I thought it was slow, too dark (as was the first Earthsea novel), and not just 'fantasy' enough. Now that I listened to it 30 years later, it is everything I miss in 21st century fantasy. Fewer kings, fewer battles and war, fewer men (with big muscles). Fantasy can be 'small' and still effective. Today, I'd reread this over a book with 50% fight scenes any day.