Coicoy

This has always been one of my personal favorite books in the series. It is the one that seems to engage the most with the fantasy genre, and Lewis's use of seafaring narrative tropes helps to lend a sense of adventure and mystery throughout the plot. As for story, I say that this is more of an episodic book, with mini-stories being told in every chapter or two. Structurally, it is basically every two chapters that hold a new story within the overarching Quest story. It reminds me of The Odyssey and Gulliver's Travels , and Edmund even mentions "Ulysses when he wanted to go near the Sirens." In the book, Caspian shares that he is searching out seven Lords who were his father's friends and had been lost at sea when his treacherous Uncle Miraz was the usurping 'King' of Narnia (in the story told in the previous book) and Aslan's Country in the far east across the sea. That overall plot device holds together well, just as well as Odysseus/Ulysses wan...