The Other Wind
The Earthsea Cycle, Book 6
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Narrated by:
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Samuel Roukin
The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. The dead are pulling him to them at night. Through him they may free themselves and invade Earthsea.
Alder seeks advice from Ged, once Archmage. Ged tells him to go to Tenar, Tehanu, and the young king at Havnor. They are joined by amber-eyed Irian, a fierce dragon able to assume the shape of a woman.
The threat can be confronted only in the Immanent Grove on Roke, the holiest place in the world, and there the king, hero, sage, wizard, and dragon make a last stand.
In this final book of the Earthsea Cycle, Le Guin combines her magical fantasy with a profoundly human, earthly, humble touch.
©2001 Ursula K. Le Guin (P)2017 Recorded BooksI was disappointed to find that this narrator was a male then I got used to his voice and was able to ignore the change, up to the point when he started mixing up the characters voices (e.g. using the same soft lighter voice for a male character previously depicted with a deeper voice, just after he used for a female character), he did not distinguish enough the voices between the various characters but mostly what annoyed me was how he pronounced the name “Irian” sometimes as “E”r”e”an (as in the sound for “e”mail) and others like “I”r”I”an as in the sound “I” from “I” am.
The story links all the trilogy elements together not in a suffocating mail chain but in an exquisitely Woven tapestry. The “Equilibrium” is re-established. Though I expected that it would be clearly stated that women would be accepted back into Roke so that yet another division could be healed.
A fitting ending to the second trilogy of Earthsea, shame that it changed narrator along the way
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