The Horse and His Boy

by C.S.Lewis


This exciting adventure story is set in the magical land of Narnia, Tashbaan, Calormene, Archenland and Anvard. This book tells the epic tale of Shasta, a talking horse named Bree , Aravis and another talking horse named Hwin. They face many perils along the way and get separated many times too but, in the end, nothing stops them from reaching their goal, to escape from Calormene and getting into Narnia. Shasta and Aravis ,though not friends at first, become friends afterwards .I don’t like the fact that C.S Lewis gives the present happenings first and then the things that happened before as it gets confusing! It is very funny when Shasta plans to steal Bree , but Bree ends up stealing him.

It is amazing when Shasta and Aravis are nearing Anvard ,how they manage to survive with only a little food, water and rest. It is very strange when ,in Tashbaan , King Edmund mistakes Shasta for Prince Corin of Archenland and takes him to where they are staying.They take him to have a nap in his room and while he was asleep,the real Prince Corin had climbed onto the window sill and had woken him up.Shasta asked Corin how he was to climb down onto the street below and Corin told him how.Shasta succeded and escaped.

“A king’s under the law for it’s the law that makes him king” is what King Lune tells Corin and Cor of Archenland in their castle.

The reason I liked this book more than the other books in the series in the Chronicles of Narnia is that it has more adventure than others.It tells much more of the land of Calormene and this series does not revolve around as much as the others around Lucy,Edmund,Susan and Peter.