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meduse_jalouse 's review for:
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
by C.S. Lewis
This review basically applies to the whole Narniaverse now that I'm reading them again for the first time in over a decade.
I read these as a kid as "real" novels; to appreciate them now I'm having to look at them more like very long fairy tales. The (moralizing) tone, plus the simple language and plot read more like a cleaned up version of the Brothers Grimm than the other fantasy and adventure stories aimed at this age range.
Not that I don't love fairy tales and parables in their own right, but I found myself very disappointed after having fond memories of this book as a fantasy epic and instead finding it much more like a very long morality play.
I read these as a kid as "real" novels; to appreciate them now I'm having to look at them more like very long fairy tales. The (moralizing) tone, plus the simple language and plot read more like a cleaned up version of the Brothers Grimm than the other fantasy and adventure stories aimed at this age range.
Not that I don't love fairy tales and parables in their own right, but I found myself very disappointed after having fond memories of this book as a fantasy epic and instead finding it much more like a very long morality play.