Much like the Prince Caspian movie, I remember almost nothing from the film version of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader... and I'm sure I watched it less than two years ago. I remembered the character of Eustace and thought he was a funny addition to the story... and pretty much nothing else. I was slightly let down after reading Prince Caspian so I tried to lower my expectations for this one.The story starts with Lucy and Edmund staying with their cousin Eustace when all three are transported back to Narnia. They find Price Caspian and he tells them that he is on a sea voyage to try and track down some lords of Narnia that were exiled by the previous king. They join him and they have a series of adventures exploring the islands of Narnia. There are merpeople, a sea serpent, deadly magic islands, slave traders, a dragon and all kinds of weird stuff.
Unlike the other Narnia stories, this one doesn't really have any major villians and is just a fun adventure story with a lot of exploration of the unknown. I thought Eustace added some humor that was lacking in the previous book and I liked how he starts out always complaining about stuff and slowly matures through the story. It might not be a classic like The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe but it is one of the better ones of the series. A
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