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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
LOVED IT!!!!
C.S Lewis More pleeease?????? :( :( :( :(
C.S Lewis More pleeease?????? :( :( :( :(
adventurous
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-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
adventurous
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic friendship
Moderate: Animal death, Violence, Murder
Minor: Child death, Death, Death of parent
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
As I mentioned before in my Dawn Treader review... these books are so much more disappointing when you last read them at age 12 and remember all the fantastic adventures, but none of the moralizing and thinly-veiled religious allegory. Given that these books are 1 part the former to 10 parts the latter, it's a pretty disappointing reread. The Last Battle perhaps especially so.
First, the good. I do love the abundant description of how perfect and lovely and happy things always are in Aslan's Country; if there is a heaven I'm sure it'd be much better if it was like that than the clouds-and-harps nonsense we always talk about.
Other than that, I just can't get behind the way this book plays out. The characters, while never especially developed, cease to exist as more than cardboard cut-outs of what C.S. Lewis wants children to see as "good people" and "bad people." There is absolutely no depth whatsoever, and Jill/Eustace and the Pevensies were so interchangeable I kept reading 'Eustace' as 'Edumund.'
Especially turned off by the glaring racism and also the insinuation that atheists are cruel morons who engage in assassination (character or otherwise) in order to get good people down. And don't even get me started on Lewis's complete betrayal of Susan and marked disdain for womanhood in general.
In short, I don't think I've ever felt quite so let-down by a reread in my life. I would have probably liked the book(s) fine if I had read them for the first time now, but to begin with so many pleasant memories and end with such a sour taste in one's mouth is a kind of disappointment I hope I don't experience again for a long time.
First, the good. I do love the abundant description of how perfect and lovely and happy things always are in Aslan's Country; if there is a heaven I'm sure it'd be much better if it was like that than the clouds-and-harps nonsense we always talk about.
Other than that, I just can't get behind the way this book plays out. The characters, while never especially developed, cease to exist as more than cardboard cut-outs of what C.S. Lewis wants children to see as "good people" and "bad people." There is absolutely no depth whatsoever, and Jill/Eustace and the Pevensies were so interchangeable I kept reading 'Eustace' as 'Edumund.'
Especially turned off by the glaring racism and also the insinuation that atheists are cruel morons who engage in assassination (character or otherwise) in order to get good people down. And don't even get me started on Lewis's complete betrayal of Susan and marked disdain for womanhood in general.
In short, I don't think I've ever felt quite so let-down by a reread in my life. I would have probably liked the book(s) fine if I had read them for the first time now, but to begin with so many pleasant memories and end with such a sour taste in one's mouth is a kind of disappointment I hope I don't experience again for a long time.
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No