Book Review: The Chronicles of Narnia (Part Five) – The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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Yet I continued reading this interesting novel. In this part five of The Chronicles of Narnia – The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, another adventure was embarked upon, this time by Lucy and Edmund only (as in the previous part, Peter and Suzzan has been informed by the great Lion that they will not have the opportunity to come back to Narnia).

It happened when Lucy and Edmund went for a holiday in their cousin’s place. Their cousin Eustace Clarence disliked his cousins the four Pevensies (Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy). But he was quite glad when he heard that Edmund and Lucy were coming to stay. For deep down inside him he liked bossing and bullying; and, though he was a puny little person who couldn't have stood up even to Lucy, let alone Edmund, in a fight, he knew that there are dozens of ways to give people a bad time if you are in your own home and they are only visitors.


Edmund and Lucy did not at all want to come and stay with Uncle Harold and Aunt Alberta. But it really couldn't be helped. Their father had got a job lecturing in America for sixteen weeks that summer, and their mother was to go with him. Peter was working very hard for an exam and he was to spend the holidays preparing. It would have cost too much money to take the other three all to America, and Susan had followed their father and mother. This now left only Lucy and Edmund to spend the holiday with their cousin.

The adventure began in Lucy’s room when Edmund and Lucy were stealing a few precious minutes alone together. And of course they were talking about Narnia, which was the name of their own private and secret country.  They were in Lucy's room, sitting on the edge of her bed and looking at a picture on the opposite wall. It was the only picture in the house that they liked.  It was a picture of a ship - a ship sailing straight towards you.

While the duo were discussing about Narnia and the ship (which happened to be the same ship which they had used during their reign as Kings and Queens in Narnia), Eustace entered and interrupted them – saying that all they are fantasizing cannot be true…

Suddenly, something magical happened… they saw that the ship in the picture is actually moving (like when you’re watching a moving)… Before they knew it, something started dragging them into the picture – all three of them! Then they found themselves in the sea…

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I have been reading these novels back-to-back and so far so good, it has been a very interesting one. Before you read this novel, I will recommend that you start from the part one of the series: The Chronicles of Narnia – The Magician’s Nephew and read it down to the last part. You will find them interesting.

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The novel is written by C.S. Lewis, the Author of the novel Out of Silent Planet and it is the continuation of the Chronicles of Narnia.

My rating: 5 star

My next reading: The Chronicles of Narnia (six) – The Silver Chair.

If you have read this novel, what are your opinions?