A definite improvement upon Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader delivers on arguably the coolest aspect of The Chronicles of Narnia: Narnia itself!
We finally get to explore parts of this world that we had been wondering about. We get to see some races we hadn’t previously seen in some lands we hadn’t previously explored with some characters we hadn’t had fleshed out yet.
A nice last hoorah for the younger Pevensie siblings, they were both in perfect royal form. Prince Caspian got fleshed out a little better. Reepicheep isn’t completely intolerable. It was nice to see Lewis do some characterization other than for Aslan!
I hated Eustace (I understand that the purpose of the character was to hate him, but I was feeling like I hated him even more than Lewis had originally intended.) so much in the beginning that I really feel like his character arc was arguably the best part of this installment, unarguably top two with the worldbuilding.
Once again, the biblical imagery in this book is second to none & continues to draw me in. If you aren’t a believer, I can understand why that would be off-putting to you.
Let’s just say I have no intentions of slowing down with this series!