The Horse and His Boy (The Chronicles of Narnia) - C. S. Lewis

Posted : 3 years, 7 months ago at May 21 13:31

This is the third volume (chronologically) in The Chronicles of Narnia (after The Magician's Nephew; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and before Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; The Last Battle). In this book we meet Shasta, a young boy who's been raised by Arsheesh, a poor fisherman far south in Calormen. One day comes a stranger on a strong warhorse, although it soon appears that this is a tyrannic Tarkaan who wants to buy Shasta and make him a slave. But his horse is actually Bree (does that name ring a bell?), a talking horse from Narnia, who come night, decides to gallop home to freedom, taking Shasta along. While on the run across the desert, they meet a girl named Aravis and her talking mare Hwin, who's also fleeing, but from her future ma...Read more

Rating : 7/10