"The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" by C. S. Lewis

Every book in the Chronicles of Narnia is very allegorical in nature. They all have numerous references to Christ or Christian theology. For the most part, I have enjoyed that element. "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" was a little extreme though. I felt that the allegories interfered with the story. Characters tended to act very stereotypically. Every conflict seemed to either not resolve itself or to resolve itself in such a way as to make the conflict trivial in the simplicity of its resolution. By the end of the book I accepted the fact that every conflict would either be ignored in the end or Aslan would come along, wave his paw, and everything would be fixed. It made it difficult to invest myself in the characters and the story if everything would devolve to trivality.