Earthsea Cycle The Other Wind, Book 6, (Paperback)

from NineLarks

For the most part, I greatly enjoyed the final installment to the Earthsea Cycle. As I have remarked in past reviews, I love Ged - so I was glad to see him reappear for a while longer in this book in his old age in his house next to the cliff harvesting plums and herding goats.The premise is beau...

from selfnoise

The most recent Earthsea novel, it is good reading but follows the recent trend of Le Guin novels feeling a bit too gentle, and without a storytelling spine.

from Raven

As a novel alone, I doubt The Other Wind would work very well. It's too bound up in what came before, the past stories, both told, and told within those that were told. But reading it as the last of the Earthsea novels is a little strange, also. The last one I read was Tehanu, which is itself dif...

from kevn57

Fine ending to the Earthsea series, I'm so glad I read the series after so many years. I like the way that all the major characters from the series appear in this final book, also glad to see that it is for the most part a happy ending. I had thought that Tehanu or Irien would marry the king the...

from Griffin22

This book takes us back to Earthsea and adds to the story of all the main characters of the previous novels. It also delves into the relationship between humans and dragons, and explains why the humans have such a horrible dark afterlife. Definitely not a stand-alone novel. It didn't seem to me t...