The Magician Nephew is the third book of the Chronicles of Narnia series but is the prequel to all the books of the series by C. S Lewis. It was my least favorite out of all of his books mainly because it was much more slow paced and kind of boring. It does not have as many obstacles throughout the story as the other books of the series. The story basically explains the
beginning of the world called Narnia and how this bloodline of people began to come and go from Narnia. It focus on Digory and Polly. Digory later becoming the grandfather of the children from The Chronicles of Narnia.
I think that though it was a little duller, it was necessary. It brought to light things about Narnia, Aslan and the making of their civilization that we probably never would have known otherwise and laid the building blocks for the ending book ‘The Last Battle’.
It also had more of a moral novel feel then the other stories. I think this, in part, made it stand out from the other stories because it seemed to be focused on the ‘why’ of the series while giving you brain food at the same time.
An example of this is with Digory being commanded to get an forbidden ...
