The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
223 pages
Published 1972
Read from June 30 to July 7
Rating: ★★½ out of 5
Meh.
This
one didn't do it for me. I think the problem was with the viewpoint
character, a vaguely perfect Prince That Was Promised archetype with no
real depth or substance. My interest waned rapidly in the first chapter,
and never quite returned until maybe past the halfway mark. And even
then the book was mostly a generalized rehash of classical land of the
dead mythology with some modern fantasy dragons tossed in. Someone's
heart wasn't in this book. Whether it was mine or Le Guin's is for other
readers to decide.
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