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

3.0

I can see what UKLG was doing here - something very unlike "A Wizard of Earthsea," a female protagonist, an investigation into different forms of power; but because the protagonist's world is near-silent and empty, a place of tombs, not a lot goes on and there is only really one action throughout the story. It could just as easily been a short story and I don't think it is very long as it is.
I'm also put in mind, having read up on Orpheus and Eurydice, of that myth from Eurydice's viewpoint. Although she was originally a creature of the high mountain pastures what if she now saw Hades as home? What if that became her place and she was fleeing there? What isn't afraid of the dark because it lives there?