A review by viviette
The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

adventurous

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

Uh, yeah. This novel was a little racist but it was made in the 1950s and I think something people don’t understand is that Aravis is a Calorman who marries a Narnian so it’s odd to say it’s racist in its entirety when part of the narrative is the two different races coming together as a team. I do think it’s aged but not entirely inappropriate to read to a child as it’s a good teaching about racism and culture and how things change. It’s also not that crazy as a narrative as Calormen aren’t real people and the entire country they come from is fictional (though definitely is comparative to some real life places). Also part of the novel was false idols as it’s an allegory for Christianity and that concept could be applied to any sort of people. Overall, to me the novel was just not as entertaining or as interesting as the two previous books.