The Farthest Shore
★★★★★Shelved Feb 12, 2021
I enjoyed this book well enough although I didn't much care for Prince Arren's character. He's so passive! But then this whole book is passive, a weird passive take on a hero's journey to slay the Big Bad. Particularly the way the enemy manifests as despair, and lethargy, and hopelessness. It makes for quite a blanket of depression for the book. I like how the Earthsea books continue to subvert all these fantasy tropes.
Goodreads readers give it 4.13★, from 131,269 ratings. I gave it 4★, −0.1, where I'm usually −0.9: I rated it like most.
Readers call it Fantasy, Young Adult, Classics, High Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Science Fiction.
Won National Book Award 1973, Margaret A. Edwards Award 2004.
Also nominated for Mythopoeic Fantasy Award 1973.