Powers is the third book of Ursula K. Le Guin's Annals of the Western Shore series. Powers is the story of a boy who is taken to be a slave with his sister at a young age. Gaivr is treated roughly at times as a slave and he eventually escapes his masters after his sister is killed. Gavir starts a voyage to find a new place to
call home and to find the answers to the visions that he sees from time to time. Gavir is a Marshland boy who not only has the power to see visions of the future, but he also has an extraordinary memory and can recite many poems and songs after briefly studying them.
For a long time I did not sense there was much connection between "Gifts" the first book of the Western Shore series and "Powers" the third book in the series. Apart from the setting of the book and the power that Gavir has I found no connection between the two books until the Uplands are mentioned in the middle of the book and at the very end of the book a character from the first book shows up in the third book.
Powers is well written, but I found it to move slowly in the beginning and it did not immediately catch my attention. I became more interested when Gavir escaped from his masters and started his journey. Gavir's journey seems to be a test of his character, because everywhere he spends time he finds problems with his adopted communities. Issues of trust abound in this story as Gavir seeks to find the meaning behind the visions he has seen and his desire not to be recaptured. This is a good book for those interested in fantasy and the works of Ursla LeGuin.
Le Guin, U. K. (2007). Powers. New York: Harcourt Ltd.
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