Like "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", this second book still suffers from excessive focus on how wonderful Aslan/Christ is, and too little on the story. Still, Lewis has a pleasant way of telling the tale, and I enjoy his narrative voice in this children's fantasy.

This is the last book with the four Pevensie children. Edmund and Lucy will be back next book, but Susan and Peter will have become too old to come back to Narnia. Ah, growing up is bittersweet. ( )

Made out to be a little less magical than 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe' that we all love dearly, this book showed that in the hands of C.S.Lewis, nothing is any less magical. Not at all. ( )

What a lovely book! As I slowly work through this series book by book, reading them aloud to my siblings, I’m understanding more and more why this series is so popular. Of the books about Narnia that I’ve read so far (the first four), I feel like this one had some of the most easily applicable allegories in it (aside from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, of course). I enjoyed that aspect of the story, but it was also fun to get to see how the children from the second book were brought back to Narnia to help when the desperate need for their assistance rose again. This made for a fun read-aloud, and I can’t wait to read more with my siblings! ( )

[Reading in chronological order, #4]
Not as magical as the first two, but an improvement of the third.

Lynn Redgrave narrated this in audio. ( )

For me, "Prince Caspian" isn't one of the highlights of the Narnia series. Although it continues the journey of the Pevensie children, it seems like relatively bog-standard fantasy fare, with new characters who I actually find don't enhance the story that much. "The Magician's Nephew" suggested there were so many worlds out there, and this - while not a bad story, by any means - doesn't take much advantage of Lewis' imagination, beyond a few funny incidents. Perhaps I'm just not interested in the more standard fantasy tropes that appear here. ( )