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Title: The Horse And His Boy
Author: C.S. Lewis
Genre: Fantasy, YA
Rating: 3/5
# pages: Audiobook
Date read: April, 2009

Summary: Shasta is a young boy living in Calormene with a cruel man who claims to be his father. One night he overhears his "father" offering to sell him as a slave, so Shasta makes a break and sets out for the North. He meets Bree, a talking horse who becomes his companion. On their way they encounter Aravis, a high-born girl escaping an arranged marriage, and her talking horse. Despite their differences the children and horses learn to work together to reach the freedom they long for. In the meantime, they uncover a Calormene plot to conquer Narnia.

Review: This has always been my least favourite Narnia book, and I therefore hadn't read it in YEARS. I recently got hold of the entire series as audiobooks, and figured it was time to give it a second chance.

Still definitely my least favourite of the books. It just doesn't seem 'right' that so little of the action takes place in Narnia, and Aslan is almost not in it at all. I think I'd love it as a book in its own rights, but as a Narnia chronicle? Nope, not good enough.