It was well-told, a good story – is that it?.Le Guin is good at dealing with big moral questions and allowing readers to draw their own conclusions – she doesn’t say what’s wrong or right, but shows things from both sides.I liked it, but was not excited by it – it was a nice read about tortured teenage angst.It’s a simple and familiar fairy tale and mythology with observations and insights of life Loved it and love her (the author) – the writing is beautiful.Le Guin writes of the proud cruelty of power, of how hard it is to grow up, and of how much harder still it is to find, in the world's darkness, gifts of light. In this beautifully crafted story, Ursula K.
The other, a boy, wears a blindfold lest his eyes and his anger kill. One, a girl, refuses to bring animals to their death in the hunt. Two young people, friends since childhood, decide not to use their gifts. The Uplanders live in constant fear that one family might unleash its gift against another. Fearsome gifts: They can twist a limb, chain a mind, inflict a wasting illness. Wondrous gifts: the ability-with a glance, a gesture, a word-to summon animals, bring forth fire, move the land. Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Gifts (Annals of the Western Shore #1) by Ursula K.
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