This was a pretty good prequel, but I'm not going to lie, I found the creation of Narnia to be extremely underwhelming. I get it, Jesus Lion is amazing. However, his magic powers, when they continue to be exaggerated in this fashion, make all of the wars and violence in the other Narnia books look more ridiculous. Jesus Lion could easily have prevented suffering, but didn't because he wanted the Sons of Adam to learn lessons and shit. I also disliked the witch's adventures on Earth, which seemed like a bad comedy skit.

Aside from that, there's a lot of good stuff in here, and I did like the origin story for the wardrobe. I also love that a little boy making an extraordinarily dumb decision (ringing the bell for NO reason) ended up bringing about years of slavery and misfortune in a virgin world. I get annoyed by Aslan, but the series overall has been a lot of fun and I'm anxious to see how Lewis ties everything up in The Last Battle.