Reviews - Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy

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Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy

C.S. Lewis

3.7 AVERAGE

mawar12's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous inspiring 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

I like the story and it's very imaginative although I feel like it could have been longer. The story of the girl is too short. The plot twist of the boy being the twin of a prince is interesting though.

meghan1997's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

lauralee012's review against another edition

2.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

It started really strong, I enjoyed the introduction of Shasta, his dreams, Hwin and Bree, and then mentioning King Edmund and Queen Susan. During the individual adventures of Aravis and Shasta, I was quickly detached from the storyline.
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jordannchloee's review against another edition

1.75

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

reading this was like engaging with someone deeply hyper fixated on the nature of enslavement as not a problematic but a fictive something or other that like can be escaped by a where with all. it was like a whole lot of nothing built into something. and i don’t think that’s bad. but i did not feel anything at all good about it. it just felt so out of left field and like idk maybe a little racist. it felt like i was taken on a journey of like reunion but never given a reason to invest in the characters? and maybe it was like because i didn’t get it or i wasnt fully invested but. i felt like i got dragged along on a journey to no where’s ville in nothing land and that i had to bring someone else’s bum ass kids with me. the motivation of which was like this patriarchal impulse for the colored man to take the white girls honor. the kids barely had lines so i wasn’t invested in them like i was invested in the core four for the first books. and i like can’t get over the … english colonialist subtext. idk. idk. i think it was written well. and was fine. and that's about all i’ve got to give it. i oftentimes liked the horses more than i liked the kids. 1.75 stars