The main thing I struggled with in this book was the imbalance between the sections featuring the lion and wizard, which seemed dumbed down to elementary age and full of bad dialogue, and the sections that were overly detailed and better suited to a very academically minded high schooler. This was reinforced by the choice to make this about half graphic novel and half very dense text. I felt like this book didn’t know what it wanted to be and it would be a hard sell to any of my middle school students. 

Furthermore, it was very clear that this book had an angle and focused a lot on conversion and theology from a religious perspective. Also, while there was some light criticism regarding the nuances of Tolkien and Lewis’ friendship, I would have loved even a passing mention of common critiques of gender or race in their texts.