A great ending to a great series. The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Alder is a simple builder who dreams of the land of of dead. After many nights seeing the dead and being touched, he travels to seek help. As he travels, he learns that the world may be in more danger than ever, with the dragons of Earthsea leaving.

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The thing I loved about this series is that while it's a fairly easy read, the world feels huge and there often aren't any simple black and white answers. I think that's the reason these books have endured for as long as they have.

This was a crazy, fun read. It might be in my top five favorite books for the year.

Gully Foyle is a largely unremarkable man. Unintelligent, illiterate, no foreseeable prospects. Until he's jettisoned into space and a rescue ship ignores his distress calls. He is saved and set down a path of single minded revenge.

This book is very much "The Count of Monte Cristo, but in space" and I absolutely love that. Gully is not at all a likeable character, but his quest to find the people who left him to die in the cold of space is insanely captivating.