A Wizard of Earthsea

I may very well be missing something, but I feel like most of the story just went over my head.

The style in the book is more descriptive than dialogue-heavy, but even then things moved very fast and were not given time to settle (so. much. travelling.). At times I didn't even know where we were or who certain characters were. Ged also seemed to be very accepting of everything that happened to him and I had trouble relating to him as a character.

I did like the story, in theory, and the last few pages were beautiful, but also abrupt, and I was surprised to see it was over already. I find the prose also very good, but maybe not for me personally.

On a sidenote, I have no idea where the Harry Potter comparisons are coming from? The wizard school is featured in maybe 2-3 chapters and not even very similar? The world and characters are also totally different? But alas.