In some ways she’s sort of Tenar’s shadow since she is corrupt and blatantly misusing her power to create suffering for the people of the kingdom. The addition of an antagonist, Kossil was interesting when compared to the more internal antagonist of the shadow from the previous book. The story seemed to take a while to get going and but once it did it became intriguing. After he arrives the story seems to shift to him trying to convince her that he is friendly and ultimately, to leave with him and abandon her role as priestess.
I quite like Tenar as a character but at times she seems rather passive in her role in the plot, particularly after Ged comes onto the scene. Like A Wizard of Earthsea the book is a coming of age story, only this time it surrounds Tenar rather than Ged, with the latter being more of a side character. However her life is eventually shaken up when Ged, the protagonist of the previous books ventures in the labyrinth in search of the lost half of the Ring of Erreth-Akbe, an item which can bring peace to Earthsea. She is embroiled in the political conflicts of older priestesses Thar and Kossil, eventually coming into conflict with the latter. The book follows a girl Tenar, who is stolen from her family to become High Priestess in service to the ‘Nameless Ones’ and is renamed Arha. The book wasn’t too long and the chapters were of a nice length, and so here I am to give my verdict. I have only reviewed the first one recently and I was surprised by how quickly I read through the sequel. The Tombs of Atuan is the second book of the Earthsea series by Ursula K.
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