5.0
challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This book took me forever to finish because every time I finished one of the novels, I had to put it down and just be for a bit. 
I love this specific era of sci-fi where other worlds are an excuse to imagine culture otherwise (and also always super interesting to see what is beyond the scope of imagination, but I digress). The questions that Le Guin asks: to whom and to what are we beholden and what and how do we know truth are woven into each of the stories without these three radically different stories being about those things precisely. 

She’s SO good.