The Unspoken Name

The Unspoken Name, A.K. Larkwood. So, I loved this. The premise is more or less "what if Tenar from Tombs of Atuan got rescued by a rather different wizard into a rather different world", although I could write a whole essay about how Larkwood may be playing with, riffing on, or inverting some of Le Guin's worldbuilding. Larkwood is also playing with a bunch of other fantasy tropes, which I'm going to put behind a spoiler cut from here (and then there will be bigger spoilers) - ( Read more... )

I would definitely call this fantasy for fantasy readers - if you get annoyed by names that come with a pronunciation guide, you may find this annoying - but I am a fantasy reader, so hey.