Prince Caspian (1951)

4.5 Stars

There isn't a whole lot that I can say about this book other than I did enjoy it. Not sure when I will be able to go on to the next book but hopefully it'll be sooner than later & not as far between as it was with The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe & A Horse & His Boy. :-) ( )

Elementary

Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie are magically whisked away to Narnia to assist Prince Caspian battle his evil uncle Miraz and retake the throne to become the rightful King of Narnia. This was one of my favorite books as a child and, although the religious allusions are too heavy-handed for an adult, every time I reread it, Caspian and the Pevensies bring me the same joy they always have. This, and the other books in the series, will be on my to-reread list for the rest of my life. ( )

If I recall, Prince Caspian might have been the driest of the chronicles. I sure hope I remember right, because this was a dull read. As a child I enjoyed it, but I devoured all the Narnia books in short order. My children enjoyed the book well enough and frankly, they managed to make the movie worse (we watched it after reading). I know Lewis wrote so much of his work as allegories and Caspian is no different, but I just didn't have the focus for that with answering my six-year-old's constant questions about words she wasn't familiar with.

We're on to the Voyage of the Dawn Treader! ( )

Prince Caspian was a wonderful book, I had read The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe as a child and never realized that there were more adventures of Lucy, Susan, Peter, and Edmund until this book. It is defiantly one of my favorite in the series. ( )