Started: October 13, 2025
Completed: October 13, 2025
Recommendation: Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody
Completed: October 13, 2025
Recommendation: Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody
Review:
The key to Le Guin's magic in Earthsea is that in order to bring one thing to this place, it must come from that place. There is a loss associated with magic and not simply a gain. That is a critically important concept to my mind and switches magic from being "magical" to being a form of theft. Sometimes this theft is appropriate and some times it is not. It has felt to me in other books of Earthsea that Le Guin has explored that trade-off. Here, however, there is much more the perspective of magic being simply gain without loss. This time, she explores the hollowness of victory. It is still a good story, but not the excellence I anticipate from an Earthsea lay.
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