A review by 3rdtimelucky
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

3.0

A Wizard of Earthsea got upgraded and this gets downgraded... As a re-read it lost the horror of the unknown and exposed a lot of cracks beneath. I just found the constant descriptions of Manan's small eyes and yellow skin and husky voice really unpleasant and the whole redemption thing felt really hollowly christian... And although some of the dialogue was great at other times it felt so exposition-y and by the end the world felt so much flatter and smaller than it did in the first book :(