Fiction Review: Wizard of Earthsea

February 17, 2026

Waaay back in, oh, I don’t know. Call it 2017, when Harry Potter fame started being questioned (and Rowling in general), Earthsea series was put forward as an alternative.

So let me tell you: Wizard of Earthsea is nowhere like Harry Potter series. It’s telling Harry Potter reader to read better fantasy series.

Which is fair enough. So let’s get back to Wizard of Earthsea.

Wizard of Earthsea is about Ged; a unusually talented at magic youth from basically backwater island. He’s headstrong and prideful, and learned magic from local Witch - before his home is invaded by nearby empire. Using his magic, Ged, not yet named Ged at the time, managed to fend them off. But he went into comma, until Ogidon, a mage, found him, healed him, and take him as his apprentice, and giving him the name Ged.