Instruct: Classify an Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: A story not like the rest...

I've loved all the Earthsea books, but Tehanu stepped outside of the environment of destiny-changing magic, battles, and journeys. It was pleasing to have the entire story contained on Gont, and just a few cherished characters introduced or reintroduced.It's beautiful in a more quiet and still way than the three predecessing books are, and focuses inward to the family and the few people involved, instead of to a whole world. All "themes" aside, LeGuin lovingly reveals what life AFTER the adventure is like... reality, as it were, to Tenar, Ged, and even Arren. Where the battles fought are with those closest to you, instead of with the nameless evil... those hardest battles of all.I cherish Tehanu for all the ways it is unlike the three previous books.