After a young priestess Tenar is chosen to the powers of the earth, everything is taken away from her by the “Nameless Ones”. She is now Arha, the Eaten One, and the guardian of the Tombs of Atuan. While Tenar is in her domain, she is in fact lonely and quite consumed by the dark atmosphere, but that is all disrupted when Ged comes to take the Tombs’ hidden treasure, which is titled the Ring of Erreth-Akbe. Despite wanting to protect the treasure in which she was forcibly assigned to, she decides that a change is in her mind.
Personally, this book provided a very good experience for a fantasy setting. The author utilizes imagery that is quite unique to their own self and the world building that is added provides better context and information than its previous installment. This story is much different than the previous one, with the previous showing light vanquishing darkness, this one shows what you do when you have lost everything and perhaps even willing to give up that last piece of security. I can definitely put emphasis on world building as this is a continuation of the previous story, it provides a different perspective, and different qualities of the world it takes place in, all with the minor details included, and some hidden to provide a sense of mystery that is important. This book can be called a coming-of-age as it has many themes tied into it that provide a deep emotional message and that’s why I can recommend it to fantasy readers.
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