Mixed Pickles - the Book log 2012

A "filler" in the Narnia series, written  to expand the Nanrina universe beyond the "Pevensie family and baton carriers".  Chronologically it is the third, it was the fourth to be written, and the fifth to be published. 

Lewis made few concessions to the fact that his audience was growing older (although the dark "Last Battle" requires, perhaps, a more sophisticated reader than  the earlier books) but the escape from a forced marriage which sets the story in motion is a little stronger than the readers of "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" might have expected. 

Not altogether essential to the history of Narnia, but it does serve to foreground the followers of the great god Tash, the religion that brings about the conflict in the final book in the series.