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I just feel like this didn't have to be a full book in the story of Earthsea. Nothing happens and frankly I think it says something that the two female POV books have the MC being saved by a man repeatedly and the two male POV books have the MC saving the world and conquering a powerful evil. Also there were too many passages in here that felt deeply misogynistic while being treated as truth and gospel.
Ursula "gender roles" Le Guin didn't stop there though with a banger of an afterword stating that the female characters are the driving force of the plot and do everything! No! Wrong! That's not in fact the book you wrote! The female characters find the solution to problems presented exactly once, and the solution is so poor its failure becomes a major part of the plot. Every other time a problem occurs either a male character deus ex machinas themselves in and saves the woman or the woman calls on some other non-female force to save them. Bad book.
Ursula "gender roles" Le Guin didn't stop there though with a banger of an afterword stating that the female characters are the driving force of the plot and do everything! No! Wrong! That's not in fact the book you wrote! The female characters find the solution to problems presented exactly once, and the solution is so poor its failure becomes a major part of the plot. Every other time a problem occurs either a male character deus ex machinas themselves in and saves the woman or the woman calls on some other non-female force to save them. Bad book.