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A review by villagebooksmith
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
5.0
I absolutely loved this. Le Guin is wonderful at crafting characters on journeys to find themselves. Written simply but exploring a depth of feeling and introspection for a younger audience that is just heavy enough but also entirely gentle and welcome. I’m so happy to be reading this series now but wonder how these books would have impacted me had I read them at a younger age.
This is a different tone to Wizard of Earthsea, and I have to say I enjoyed it more than the first book. The tombs are a character themselves, and offer a level of horror, or claustrophobia - anxiety - that adds an urgency that was missing from the first book.
This is a different tone to Wizard of Earthsea, and I have to say I enjoyed it more than the first book. The tombs are a character themselves, and offer a level of horror, or claustrophobia - anxiety - that adds an urgency that was missing from the first book.