A review by feedingbrett
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

adventurous dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It is a story of a young man coming into his own, not just in his wizardry, but of his true nature. It traces a path to complete self-awareness and how such understanding would lead and inform one to complete actualisation and inner peace. A Wizard of Earthsea never gets lost in the minutia of its world-building, recognising such insistence would be a distraction rather than beneficial. And yet, strikingly, it remains able to balance both the grand and the personal that would still satisfy the appetites of its readers. This was a delight.