Earthsea Cycle: Tehanu : Book Four (Series #4) (Paperback)

from xicanti

As always, Le Guin's writing is simply beautiful. I find her very appealing on a purely aesthetic level. And yet, I can never really connect with her books because I don't feel as though she really gets involved with her characters. It's like she's riding around on their shoulders, recording what...

from Kplatypus

Tehanu is the last book of the Earthsea Cycle, at least as far as I can tell. Like the other books, this is a fantasy novel but, also like the other books, it has its own distinct theme. Tehanu picks up the story of Tenar, from The Tombs of Atuan and the action starts at about the same as that of...

from ChristopherSwann

I first read this years ago and didn't appreciate it. Reading about the hero of three previous novels who has lost his power was, at the time, disappointing. And I probably resisted the overt feminist themes. Now I realize it is a great step forward in the Earthsea series, a bold undertaking by L...

from nebula21

The fourth book of the Earthsea series. This book brings the first three stories together nicely as we again meet Tenar from The Tombs of Atuan and Arren (now Lebannen) from The Farthest Shore. The story overlaps with The Farthest Shore and then they coalesce when Ged arrives back in Gont and we ...

from jasmyn9

Tehanu returns us to the world of Earthsea, to the time after the The Farthest Shore and The Tombs of Atuan. Tenar has grown older, had a family, and is now a widower when she received an urgentl from Sparrowhawk's former mentor Ogion, the mage that took her in when she first came to the area. As...