I struggled with this book when I was younger and reading the Narnia series, largely because it's incredibly boring. As an adult, I was equally bored, but at least I read faster now. Bringing us away from the Pevensie family for the first time, The Horse And His Boy brings us over the desert lands connected to Narnia, and we meet Shasta.

This is a harder read than the other books, because while I can excuse the heavy Christian themes of the first two, you cannoy excuse the blatant racism here. The Calormenes are depicted as a wild, brutal, barbaric people while the Narnians are seen as worldly, wise, and educated. There's a constant feeling of Lewis poking fun at Middle Eastern people.

I don't remember the full plot of the Narnia series too well, but I expect to see Shasta again in the future, either in person or by mention. We're told his life story at the end of the book, so I'm unsure if we'll see him in person or by name only.