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I know this is considered one of those timeless classics that everyone should read, but I honestly didn’t understand the hype. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe as well as Voyage of the Dawn Treader were pretty good reads, but all the others grew worse and worse as time went on until they were virtually unreadable. I can’t help but feel that The Horse and His Boy and The Last Battle were incredibly insensitive, religiously intolerant, racist, and dogmatic to a degree that reading them became a chore, the latter of which was devoid of any plot. Also the last book made Susan an orphan and implied the best possible thing to happen would be for your entire family to die in a train accident so you could go to heaven? I still think maybe two stars was too generous.

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4.0

I re-read this series as part of numerous books I read for lent this year. As a collection of 7 books it has exciting moments and moments that were more blah. While I am glad I read all of Narnia I will say by the end it felt very long and I had to push myself to get through it.

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adventurous hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-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? Yes

4.5

pasinsky's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful relaxing fast-paced

4.0

keliseb's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

never not comforting.

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4.0

A lovely set of fairytales which are written from the very enjoyable perspective of children.

Magician's Nephew starts the Chronicles of Narnia in every sense of the word...and we find out just why the wardrobe works as it does and the identity of the Professor!

Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the tale with which most everyone is most familiar where Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy go off adventuring through the wardrobe into Narnia.
Horse and His Boy is a tale of secret identities, kidnappings, and the reveal of another nation's rivalry with Narnia.

Prince Caspian's adventure begins with Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy being pulled into Narnia from the train where they aid Prince Caspian in overthrowing his murderous uncle and restoring Narnian principles.

Voyage of the Dawn Treader adds a new son of Adam when Edmund and Lucy fall into the sea and all three are picked up by the Dawn Treader as it sails on its journey to discover what happened to the seven loyal men whom King Caspian's uncle plotted to kill.

Silver Chair deposits Eustace and Jill into Narnia in time to miss King Caspian sailing off to search for his lost son. Aslan has given them the task of finding Prince Rilian and those adventures see them escaping hungry giants and defeating the evil Queen of the Underworld to rescue Prince Rilian thus fulfilling the task given them by Aslan.

Last Battle is a desperate struggle to defeat the evil alliance of Shift and the Calormene to save Narnia. Eustace and Jill arrive to help King Tirian fruitlessly battle the alliance but Aslan's appearance completes the doom of Narnia with a very Christian "judging at the pearly gates" separating the believers from the unbelievers as they all venture forth into a new Narnia where they meet up with Peter, Edmund, and Lucy. To Lucy's pleasant surprise, they learn that none of them will be sent back to their world ever again as they discover the truth of Narnia.

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5.0

Ugh I don’t know why it took so long to read this. I love the stories with in Narnia

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