A review by coffeeandbooked
The Word for World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

3.0

I did like this book, it was a very important book to read in my opinion. It has a very important lesson and touches on topics that are as important now and they have been in the past. One of the topics that this story discusses is slavery, rape, murder and invading of other peoples land. I think it is done extremely well - the main character Captain Dan Davidson is an awful man and thinks that the natives of the other planets are beneath him and should do as he wants them to.

A lot does happen in this book and I did get a little lost and confused whilst reading it but I did manage to get back into it fairly quickly.

I think this is a book you could re-read and get something else from it each time.