This book was a slog, and it only started to redeem itself in the last hundred pages. Imagine if "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe" spent the majority of the book in The Professor's house, the boys learning grammar, musketry and gardening, while the girls learned how to bake and sew. And then the last two chapters of the book were finding the wardrobe, going to war, and then Lucy and Aslan ride off into the sunset. Even though the end of the story is exhilarating... does it make up for the sheer boredom that is the rest of the book?