The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader by C.S.Lewis

The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader by C.S.Lewis is the fifth book in The Chronicles of Narnia fantasy series (also a movie series) which also contains The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrode perhaps the most well known book in the series. This was the third book I have read in the series and it was by far the most enjoyable, the other two being The Horse and His Boy and Prince Caspian. It is an oldie but a classic as it was first publish in 1952, this means the style of writing by the author feels different to that of today's books.

The main drive for this book is an epic quest that takes place in the magical mystery realm called Narnia which is joined to our world via a wardrobe. Wierd and wacky things take place in Narnia, not to mention amazing wars between humans, animals, elfs, dwarfs and other creatures.

It is written in a third person narration style with the author being intrusive on all thoughts and feelings of the characters and providing his own opinion at times which adds to the fun.  You really get to know all the characters personalities really well as you have access to their thoughts and feelings so you can almost judge what they will do at times. The book is quite short and therefore does not provide detailed and descriptive writing constantly. It has a fast paced storyline which jumps around from place to place and character to character sometimes following two separate story lines.

The storyline is that of a quest and has a follows a setting, action, conflict, resolution, conclusion format. There are many minor conflicts throughout the book that are based on character vs character or character vs monster interactions. As the story does have a final conclusion it is able to be read separate from all other books in the series.

The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader is suitable for all ages and is quite a easy read. I would recommend it as the book to read in the Narnia series after The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.