Voices by Ursula K.
LeGuin is a continuation of Orrec and Gry's story, but with the focus
on a new character, Memer who is a result of rape and the daughter of
a member of the strongest house in a war torn and sacked city.
This story covers a
great many years quickly. It is interesting and packed full of
history of this fictional people such that they seem to surely have
exited somewhere that we could meet and talk with them. Orrec and
Gry have been traveling seventeen years when they meet Memer. Orrec
is now a story teller of great renown. Gry is still Gry. They still
have the horses they left with and now also have a lion as their
protector.
What happens in this
story kept me reading through the night. I started this book one
afternoon and finished it during the night. I will probably let my
eldest daughter read it, but my second daughter will probably have to
wait. Mostly because of the rape issue, but also because of the war
situation in general.
I do recommend this
book for middle age teens (level of maturation relatively high) and
older. My second daughter is only ten, thus she will wait.
Have you read Voice
by Ursula K. LeGuin? What did you think of it?
