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 Hello dear readers and fellow bloggers! In this post, I'll review Tenahu , the fourth novel in the Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin. The novel reintroduces Tenar as the novel's protagonist. If you remember my previous reviews, Tenar was absent from the third book, so I was thrilled to read about her again. This fourth novel didn't disappoint. It connects quite nicely with the third one.   Published in 1990,  twenty years after the third novel in the series, Tehanu takes of where the third novel ended.   The Farthest shore  is for a variety of reasons often marketed and sold as the last book in the Earthsea Cycle. As I explained it my last post, it's mostly due to a two decades long publishing pause. However, I wonder if there's not something more to it. Isn't it perhaps the case that people were so used to fantasy trilogies that they immediately assumed that this is it? Fortunately, it wasn't! Now, for  Tenahu Ursula herself chose the subtitle...

 Hello dear readers and fellow bloggers! In this post, I'll review The Farthest Shore , a fantasy coming of age ( bildungsroman)  novel by Ursula K. Le Guin.   Published in 1972 and set in the Earthsea fantasy land, The Farthest Shore is the third book in the series/saga known as  Earthsea Cycle .  What about the first two? The first book in the series is   A Wizard of Earthsea . Focused on young Ged, the first novel introduces us to the world of Earthsea and the school of magic. While sequel,  The Tombs of Atuan, focuses  on a young female protagonist Tenar, it also features Ged, the protagonist from the first novel. Both of these Earthsea novels feature a young protagonist and fall into the bildungsroman genre. The third one is no exception. While Ged again has an important role to play, the third novel in the series is focused on young protagonist Arren. I was a little sad when I realized that Tenar doesn't appear in this third novel, but ...