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kylel64 's review for:
The Horse and His Boy
by C.S. Lewis
adventurous
hopeful
medium-paced
Remembered this as my favorite Narnia book and it’s easy to see why; it’s genuinely bleak and disturbing at times, and there’s no portal fantasy aspect making the book feel more grounded. But my god did I forgot how incredibly racist and Islamophobic the book is, probably because I didn’t realize it as a kid. There isn’t really any Christian lesson here like there are in the other books beyond “brown people with turbans are evil” which is wild and incredibly disappointing.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Islamophobia
Moderate: Child abuse