it may not feel like a lot happened, and many segments felt repetitious. There was some info, fleshing-out, and characterization. If you like to read books, then you like to go on a journey (official cliche) - so scenery is something that happens, even if bits of Tolkien and other English authors can be seriously skip-able on the 2nd read.

It's a chapter in a novel of probably 600+ pages in hardcover. Michael Bay custom-makes movies for the not-actually-ADD set, because lots of people want that "reward button" to get hit every four seconds.

Actual critique might ask if it's intending to mirror Mat's adventures with Thom on their last night in TV. Or if something is wrong in characterization to have Mat say so much while he's really doing so little. Being loud is less fun when you're making less of a point...

Whether a book works for you is about whether you feel positively about the quality of the writing, the choices of the author, and the overall "flow" of the work. There's also this thing called "the author's thesis." Check it out.