Thursday, January 5, 2023

The Light Between Worlds, by Laura E. Weymouth

This is basically Narnia fan-fiction. Of course its details are altered, for copyright reasons, from the C.S. Lewis books, but the basic premise is: what happened to the Pevensie children after their return from Narnia?  Only here it is three children instead of four, the world is called the Woodlands not Narnia, and its figurehead is a white stag named Cervus, not a lion called Aslan. If you like Narnia a lot, you may find interest here, but if Narnia leaves you cold (as it does me), this is a pallid remembrance, and not especially well-written. It reads like something thought up in a cynical publisher's marketing department, and executed by a pre-selected hack writer. Readers looking for at least some originality should steer clear of this exploitation.

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