B Jansen’s Reviews > The Complete Chronicles of Narnia > Status Update

The last battle, out of all the stories, this one is the most religious coded. The references are on the nose. However, as the end of a story goes, this one does not disappoint.

It leads the story to a climax and a fitting ending. All the stories are tied up in this one. Though the queen mother still has not gotten a name. I am glad i got to read these classic stories about a lion, magic and believe.

The silver chair, it took me a bit of effort to get into the story. However, once it got going I was in it.

Bit miffed about the treatment of the ladies in the book at times and the complete lack of the queen's name, while they have named the horses.

Puddleglum has some incredible lines of pure sarcastic goodness and I continue to like how the Lewis manages to bring to stories together with linguistic throwbacks.

To start a story with " there was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it" is just ingenious. The introduction of this character is vivid and immediately sucked me into the story.
The story is very different from the film, but still very whimsical and fantastical. I loved the throwbacks and the weaving of the stories into a whole. Yet I do miss some swashbuckling adventure in this one.