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The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis

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alexandra_salisbury's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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sburchart's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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mayagraci's review against another edition

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adventurous fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.75

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brogan7's review against another edition

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adventurous relaxing tense medium-paced

2.5

The reason I read this book was because of the opening pages, depicting a relationship between a narcissist (monkey) and his henchman (a donkey). I wanted to know how that played out; what the donkey learned; whether he withstood the persuasions of someone who wasn't a friend at all...but none of that was delivered in the book.
(Eventually I kept reading because I also wanted to know if the animals discovered the monkey's ruse of pretending Aslan had returned.)
But overall, pfff. A strange monotheistic tale of the glory of death, what a curious religion Christianity is!
Also, who could fail to notice the Calormenes are all "dark" (as well as evil)...

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byrenical's review

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adventurous medium-paced

2.25

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emmacb's review against another edition

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1.0

Re-reading this series has been eye opening, as I knew there was racism and sexism and heavy Christian imagery among other old-school viewpoints that do not stand up today (and shouldn't have at the time either!), but reading it and noticing those moments myself was different from knowing it in the abstract.

In general, my view of the series was that I wouldnt encourage, but would let my (future) kids read them if they chose but with a lot of conversation around the themes. This one however, I would actively discourage.

Very racist (brown face, calling people d*rkie a LOT, stereotypes galore), and some seriously questionable Christian religious imperialism

(I.e. the 'good' calormenes were actually worshiping Aslan all along they just thought it was Tash, who is actually bad because surely no other religion could have a good deity/people 😖

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abby_can_read's review against another edition

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adventurous medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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I've enjoyed the entire series, and I struggled with this book. It was darker compared to previous books, though overall I did enjoy reading it.

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rakkaussipsi's review against another edition

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adventurous

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2.0

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author2223's review against another edition

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adventurous dark hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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abbyschafer's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful fast-paced

Diverse cast of characters? No

2.5

Love the idea of bookending the Chronicles with a big reunion but this is the most racist of the books yet! CS Lewis had dwarves using slurs!!!

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