The Last Battle question

No. For me, the whole book seemed forced, and lacking the imagination, magic, and adventure present in the earlier books. I had read all of these when I was in grade school, and loved them. I was enjoying reading them to my daughter recently (in released order, because I had read them that way), and was happy with how much I remembered in each book from when I was young. When we got to this final book, I was surprised that I didn't remember much of anything. I had read it, but probably dismissed it at the time, because it wasn't as good.
The biggest issue both my daughter and I had, was that Lewis seemed to have had to fabricate new "rules" to make the story work: the smart animals were now dumb and easily fooled; Dwarves were now single-minded beyond reason (and willing to attack ANYONE, if they wanted to justify it); Narnia was now easy to invade, with no protective buffer in between; Aslan was now not the only REAL god; ...
None of the book made sense to either of us, and seemed to dismiss all of the magic and story logic of the first six books to fit the wants of the author, instead of the needs of the story.

Yes I am. I never even realized these books had tons of religious allegories throughout the series until my second rereading. I think it’s wrapped up very nicely, with all our heroes and favorite characters, (excepting Susan), get a unique happily ever after. They get to leave the real world and live in a peaceful, perfect, Fantasy Land with their friends and family for all eternity. Sounds pretty good to me.

I really only wish that Susan’s character arc had been handled better. A lot of people don't really get what Lewis is trying to say here. He’s not saying it was wrong of Susan to grow up or like feminine things such as makeup. He’s saying Susan became too worldly. Too shallow. That she forgot what was REALLY important in life. I don’t believe he meant to cast her aside so easily like he did. I really wish she could’ve at the end realized her mistakes, remembered Narnia again and was able to eventually go to heaven and be with her family and friends that had died. I think Lewis intended to do that maybe eventually in a short story or something but never got around to it. I don’t think he gave up on her even though it seems that way in the narrative. A Narnia fan pointed the following out to me on Tumblr and it gave me hope for Susan.

“Quite a while ago, someone messaged me to tell me that in the Bible the number 7 represents completion.
This number appears a lot in Revelation. Seven churches, seven lampstands, seven seals, seven spirits of God, seven angels, seven trumpets, etc… of course, this is the last book in the Bible. We can see how this means that everything is complete.
So when I was searching for parallels in The Last Battle, the Seven Friends of Narnia stand out. There they are: Seven. The seven friends. The seven churches. The seven lampstands. And it just seems so clear that this is what the seven friends are meant to represent!
But when these 7 stand there; 7, in completion; I can’t help wondering what about Susan?
So I looked it up. Do you know what the number 8 represents in the Bible? Do you have any idea?
New beginnings. Resurrection. Regeneration. New life.
Susan is the 8th. Don’t let anybody EVER say that there’s no hope for her; or no plan for her; or no purpose for her. Yes, the Seven stand in completion, but after the end, God makes all things new.”

ONCE A QUEEN OF NARNIA ALWAYS A QUEEN OF NARNIA!

*mic drop*