The Horse and His Boy
After finishing Memoirs of a Geisha, it was right back into the Narnia books with “The Horse and His Boy”. Jodi read (for real, not Audible) this one a few weeks before me and wrote about it here.
[edit - Feb 1,2006 - Jodi points out that the next paragraph has a "spoiler" in it, at least in so far as you can have a spoiler in a children's book with a relatively predictable ending. Reader be warned.]
I tend to agree with Jodi’s analysis that it’s not the best in the series, although talking horses don’t bother me as much as they seem to bother her. I think I empathized more with Shasta’s story, even though I ended up remembering early in the book that he would end up as a prince at the end.
It was a very short book, so it only took 2–3 days to listen through. My thought: read it if you’re reading the whole series, but probably not the one to read if you’re to choose just one in the series to focus on.
Jodi said,
February 1, 2006 at 6:36 pm
I have two comments:
First – WHAT?!?! Shasta becomes a prince at the end? Total spoiler!
Second – I also got sick of all of the Middle Eastern stereotypes, which irritated me almost as much as the talking horses.