I read and reviewed the four books collected here separately, so this is basically just for my own records. The collection rating is an average of the individual ratings, and even then it's rounded up, as the average was 2.5 stars. That's largely down to the last book, but more on that in a minute. The Horse and His Boy, deeply problematic as it is, has always been my favourite of the series, ever since I read it as a kid. Four stars for it. The Magician's Nephew was likeable enough and earned three. The Silver Chair has, for decades, been the Narnia book I always forget about, because although it has nice moments I'm never interested enough to remember its existence, so two stars there. Then we come to it: The Last Battle, which has retained its position as my most hated book ever since I read it as a kid, and nothing I've read in the decades since has knocked it off its nasty pedestal. I can do no better than quote the final paragraph from my original review: "Thirty years later, this dreadful piece of crap still fills me with absolute rage. Mean-spirited, vengeful, death-glorifying, uncompassionate tripe, prettily coated in poisoned sugar."