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Overall rating (including The Description of Earthsea & the Afterword): 4.5
The Finder ~ 5 Stars - It took me a while to get into this, but it was interesting and entertaining. It serves as a history and story of creation. To say more might spoil the reveal at the end, but I do have an axe to grind: (view spoiler)
Darkrose and Diamond ~ 4 Stars - Music, Magic, Money, or Love; How to choose? A c ...more
The Finder ~ 5 Stars - It took me a while to get into this, but it was interesting and entertaining. It serves as a history and story of creation. To say more might spoil the reveal at the end, but I do have an axe to grind: (view spoiler)
Darkrose and Diamond ~ 4 Stars - Music, Magic, Money, or Love; How to choose? A c ...more

The stories here are uniformly good. I especially liked The Finder, about the founding of the wizard school, and Dragonfly, which I suppose is a bridge between Tehanu and the last book, which I have not yet read. For me, while uniformly good, none of them stood out as being excellent or riveting. And I doubt whether they would hold much interest for anyone who had not read the other Earthsea books.
I often feel this way about stories that are adjacent to existing worlds/stories, whether it's Sand ...more
I often feel this way about stories that are adjacent to existing worlds/stories, whether it's Sand ...more

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