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C. S. Lewis – The Last Battle | Review

August 15, 2019
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Title: The Last Battle

Author: C. S. Lewis

Type: Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 176

Rating: 2.5/5

 

 

I was expecting this book to be a lot better than it was, and that kind of sums up my whole experience of the series. Sure, there were a few highlights here and there, but there was also a lot of downtime where it felt like nothing much was really happening. I also felt as though C. S. Lewis was clunkier here than he was in his other books when it comes to communicating the message he wanted to communicate.

So all in all, it was kind of a disappointing end to the series, but I’m also not particularly surprised. It’s also not as though it was awful, it was just boring and unengaging, and by this point I’m also starting to flag and to feel my interest waning in the series. And so I guess it’s something of an anticlimactic end to The Chronicles of Narnia, but at least I finished.

 

 

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C. S. Lewis – Prince Caspian | Review

August 8, 2019
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Title: Prince Caspian

Author: C. S. Lewis

Type: Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 192

Rating: 4/5

 

 

I’m glad that I enjoyed this one, because the last Narnia book that I read was The Horse and His Boy and I thought it was awful. But this one was a lot better, in part because we see the return of a bunch of characters from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and a sense of character development from throughout the series.

True, it did still have the fairly generic storyline of the kids travelling across Narnia for a while and then getting in a big battle at the end, but it was told in a different way and there were a couple of new characters and some new lore that was actually enjoyable instead of just feeling like a load of exposition.

All in all then, the Narnia series bounced back for me after a real low with The Horse and His Boy, and now I’m back to being excited about finishing it off. Bring on The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – I’m starting it straight away.