Good god why are all takes on Narnia so depressing? I'm the first person to rant about C.S. Lewis, I really am, but come on! I didn't enjoy this trip at all – I'm not going to call it the British alternative to The Magicians, because that would be wrong. Kinda. But seeing an aging whiny cowardly dude run through creepy, depressing not-Narnia, occasionally broken up by some pandemic depression was not my jam. Would probably have worked as a short story, honestly, because the premise is kinda neat, if you don't get to spend too much time with all the depression.