I've read and reviewed each of the 4 books in this omnibus separately, so this is really just for my own records. The overall rating is an average of the individual ones, and those are split entirely by protagonist. A Wizard of Earthsea and The Farthest Shore each earned 3 stars. They're well-written and relatively interesting, but I just don't care about Ged, and in comparison to the rest his stories and concerns seem over-inflated. The Tombs of Atuan and Tehanu, however, have Tenar as the star and she is astonishing. These are smaller stories, of small communities and the kindnesses and pettiness therein, and they're so much more convincing and finely drawn that they both get 5 stars from me. (And hey, in both these stories Tenar even manages to make Ged a bit less dull, which is a feat in itself.)