Throughout this book much is made of the fact that Abby has promised that she will not meddle anymore in dangerous situations, but once Jillian asks Abby to find out who killed the groomsman Punch, she has no choice but to say yes. With one of her groomsmen and another in jail accused of his murder.what is a bride to do! Jillian is distraught at the prospect of her wedding being cancelled and so turns to Abby to ask her to help investigate the murder.

One of the groomsmen is missing, and before too long another one turns up dead. Jillian has been engaged numerous times before, but this time it actually looks as though she is going to make it to the actual ceremony all things being well. My post regarding the previous Chronicle of Narnia that I read is here.Ībby Knight, law school dropout and now flower shop owner has just had a really rough week when the novel opens, and now she has to face being responsible for the flowers at her cousin Jillian's wedding and try to pull off a really big display on the same day as the wedding at a really important client's house. The division between good and evil is very clearly delineated in this way. The Calormen are all dark skinned whilst our hero, Shasta is in fact Archenland royalty and he is blond and fair skinned. I can however see more in this book than I have in any of the others that I have read why Lewis gets into trouble for being racist and sexist in this series. Their journey is fraught with danger esepcially as the treacherous Calormen are about to commit an act of war on Archenland, a close ally of Narnia.Īslan makes several appearances in this novel, and this certainly is a very meaningful book. Along the way he meets up with a talking horse whose abbreviated name is Bree (we humans couldn't pronounce his whole name properly if we tried!) and Aravis and her talking horse Hwin.

When he overhears his father planning to sell him off to become a slave he decides to run away and look for the magical land of Narnia. In The Horse and His Boy, Shasta has been raised as a fisherman's son, but basically worked as a in the land of Calormen. Here is a link to my previous posts about books from the Chronicles of Narnia series.Īfter all my fuss about what is the correct order to read the Chronicles of Narnia in (see previous post here.) I then went an picked up the wrong book, so have just finished The Horse and His Boy when I should have been reading The Silver Chair! Oh well!! Reading the first line, I was convinced that I really should have read the books in chronological order.that as it was now it was definitely not the right order!! We'll see how it all fits in place once I have read The Silver Chair which is now my next read! This is probably my favourite so far after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. They also enter underground worlds where there is a great enchantment, and learn lessons about obedience and Aslan's power along the way. They are accompanied on their journey by a Marsh-Wiggle and encounter giants who like nothing better than man-pie on their great feast days. Caspian is now and old man, and he has no heir, so Jill and Eustace are sent by Aslan to go and find him as he is being held captive. Eustace previously visited Narnia in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader with his cousins Lucy and Edmund, where his adventures included being turned into a dragon, and he really wanted to go back so he is calling Aslan to let him back into Narnia, when suddenly his request is granted.īefore he knows it, Jill and Eustace are in Narnia and on a quest to find King Caspian's son Rilian who disappeared 10 years ago. Eustace Scrubb returns to Narnia along with his school mate Jillian Pole.

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