** spoiler alert ** I have never actively disliked a C.S. Lewis book before, but I guess there's a first time for everything. Deciding to tell Eros and Psyche's story from limited 1st person POV from someone OUTSIDE the story was an interesting choice, so points for creativity, but I felt like it took some of the power from the story, somehow. There are huge gaps in the story where Orual simply says "that's not relevant" or "I wasn't personally there for XYZ events, so I'm not even going to cover them," and I found that jarring, and it also made it hard to keep a sense of time. This did allow for some interesting parts at the end, if you fall into the trap that it's so easy to fall into, of believing the narrator's version of events and then finding out it's not entirely true. I wanted to feel empathy or sympathy or both for Orual, and I did at the beginning, but the more the story wore on the harder it became for me to identify with her, and since I was locked in her perspective, if I didn't identify with her or like her, I couldn't really like the book.

Also, Lewis did the fade to black HAH JUST KIDDING THAT'S NOT IT ending, and I hate that. I might just not have been able to really dig through the book without discussion or some kind of reading guide, or maybe I'm just too attached to the traditional version of Eros and Psyche's story to handle a retelling graciously.