Sunday, June 16, 2019

The Last Battle The Chronicles of Narnia #7

Shift an ape persuades Puzzle, a donkey, to dress in a lion's skin to pretend to be Aslan. Shift also deceives many of the Narnians to serve the Calormenes and cutting down Talking Trees for lumber. To get money for the good of Narnia.
     Narnia has had peace and prosperity since the reign of King Caspian. Tirian and Jewel the Unicorn set out to stop the trees from being cut down. They find two Narnians abusing a talking horse and kill them. Awaiting for punishment for their crime they discover that they are deceiving everyone. He then accuses the ape of lying. Tirian is tied to a tree. Then Jill and Eustace arrive in Narnia. They release the King and rescue Jewel. Puzzle, realizing that he doesn't want to deceive anyone anymore joins them. Tirian also learns that Shift has unintentionally summoned the actual Tash ( a God) to Narnia  Farsight the eagle arrives to help, bearing news that Roonwit and the Narnian army have all been killed in battle. They advance on the stable to expose the truth of the deception. Shift plans to force them into the stable to meet Tash.
     Outside the stable, most of the remaining Narnians are all either killed, captured and sacrificed to Tash. All the kings and queens bear witness to the end of the world. All the inhabitants, living and dead, gather outside the barn to be judged by Aslan; the faithful enter Aslan's Country while those who have opposed or deserted him become ordinary animals and vanish. The vegetation is eaten by dragons and giant lizards, and Father Time calls the stars down from the skies into the sea as it rises to cover Narnia. The land freezes when Father Time puts out the sun and the moon. Peter closes the door, and Aslan leads them to his country.
     They find they are in a new, "real" version of Narnia. They move up a waterfall to gates where they are greeted by Reepicheep and meet other characters from the earlier novels. They find they can see a real England, parallelling the real Narnia.
     This was very good and a well-done version of the 7 book series.





An Exceptional Hound

This is the second book in the Ryland Creek Saga. Jason, Bobby, and Tara are 3 friends that decide to learn how to coon hunt with the guidance of Nathan Ernst, with his coonhound Seth and somewhat eccentric Uncle Arthur. But the woods hide a powerful spirit bear Scar Paw. Scar Paw creates some danger for everyone. They have to learn how to rely on each other and the exceptional hound to save the day. Very good.



Trusting God: A Girlfriends in God Faith Adventure

This book was very good! It was a 12 week Bible study about how to trust God and at the end of each chapter, it had discussion questions and exercises. It really showed me what does trusting God really look like? I also learned about the Girlfriends in God ministry team. Highly recommend.