Beginning Place by Le Guin

Beginning Place

by Le Guin

Fleeing from the monotony of his life, Hugh Rogers finds his way to "the beginning place"--a gateway to Tembreabrezi, an idyllic, unchanging world of eternal twilight. Irena Pannis was thirteen when she first found the beginning place. Now, seven years later, she has grown to know and love the gentle inhabitants of Tembreabrezi, or Mountaintown, and she sees Hugh as a trespasser. But then a monstrous shadow threatens to destroy Mountaintown, and Hugh and Irena join forces to seek it out. Along the way, they begin to fall in love. Are they on their way to a new beginning...or a fateful end?

Reviewed by wyvernfriend on

4 of 5 stars

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A fairly inaccurate cover, a story that does read like a nearly first novel, it's not her best but it is early work by her and I prefer it to some of her later stuff. I'm going to have to read it again to see if I understand it properly. A fantasy romance now billed as a young adult book.

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