Hello, readers! :)
My name is Sea-Solo (a pen name, obviously), and I hope to review books that I've read on this blog, and also do book-related things.
Today's book review is on:
The back reads:
Ged was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea. But he was once called Sparrowhawk, a reckless youth, hungry for power and knowledge, who tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. This is the tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance.
This book is about a wizard of Earthsea named Sparrowhawk. I'm sure those of you who have seen the movie created by studio Ghibli will be squealing, I expect, because the movie is so good, but you didn't really get that much into Sparrowhawk's story of how he became a wizard, how he got his legendary scars, and how he got to be who he was in Tales From Earthsea (which just so happens to be the 5th book in this series).
What I find funny is when you read the afterword in the back, you will see that Ursula K. Le Guin didn't want to write a teenage book when the publisher asked her to. She says that it was the idea of writing with a specific audience in mind that scared her. The only well-known fantasy books that were out when she started to write the Earthsea series was J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. A Wizard of Earthsea was the first of its kind.
I would reccomend this book to high school readers and adults, because even though it is short, it is as well worded as The Hobbit or any other adult fantasy novel.
Well, that's all for today! Catch you in the next one!
~Sea-Solo out!
Currently reading:
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
and
Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson
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