This is the second time reading this cycle, and I have to say that revisiting this over the last two months--which is how long it took me to read all four books--has been a revelation. I appreciate that to say what she needed to say, at the time she said it, Le Guin needed the books to be very male centred, yet this culminates in the final book, Tehanu--to a story of survival, trauma and women's power. So grateful now that I am an older woman, to have these books