The Other Wind

3.5 stars
i dont think it's a perfect book but i loved the ending, loved the new characters and loved the contemplativeness of the story. didnt love so much the age gap between seserakh and lebannen... it's the same issue i have with ged and tenar, but at least those two don't get together until they're middle aged after having been apart for a long time.

my criticisms with the book mostly lie in how meandering it feels at times, and also how dialogue-heavy it can be in comparison with the other books. it also felt a little exposition-y at times, which makes sense when you remember it was published a long time after ‘a wizard,' but as someone who's been devouring the entire series over a couple months, the exposition felt a little heavy-handed.
and, yes... the fact that there are only two major female characters who aren't secretly dragons and they're both white women is... now i love ursula but that is a very white woman thing to do.

but! that aside, the ending is really perfect to me. it ties everything up really nicely, and i'm glad ursula wrote more after tehanu was titled the ‘last' book of earthsea. in all i just adore this world and i'm glad i finally read these books