Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince - JK Rowling
I actually finished this book yesterday, but I didn’t feel like reviewing it just then. I don’t want to spoiler those who have not yet read it, but I was crying. I kept crying until I closed the book.
I can say that - with the Philosopher’s Stone and all being a fairly thin book - I needed only about a day more to read this one than I did when reading the Philosopher’s Stone. That adds up to three days.
I was indulged from the moment I laid my eyes upon the first page. JK Rowling had some serious plot twists planned, I knew, and I was eager to know what would happen. I’d seen the film, alright, but that was about a year ago. And it was definitely worth it.
The tension in this book doesn’t seem to come to a halt - I already explained why I didn’t like the Order of the Phoenix as much as the other books because it had some slower passages that were hard to get through at some point, but the Half-Blood-Prince just blew it. Once again the sub-plots were intertwined neatly into the story and were - although they seemed rather stupid (like Hagrid crying over the loss of his gigantic spider in the forbidden forest) - an important piece to the whole of the story. And I can definitely say now that the Half-Blood Prince is my second favourite book at this point.
(originally posted May 2016)
I actually finished this book yesterday, but I didn’t feel like reviewing it just then. I don’t want to spoiler those who have not yet read it, but I was crying. I kept crying until I closed the book.
I can say that - with the Philosopher’s Stone and all being a fairly thin book - I needed only about a day more to read this one than I did when reading the Philosopher’s Stone. That adds up to three days.
I was indulged from the moment I laid my eyes upon the first page. JK Rowling had some serious plot twists planned, I knew, and I was eager to know what would happen. I’d seen the film, alright, but that was about a year ago. And it was definitely worth it.
The tension in this book doesn’t seem to come to a halt - I already explained why I didn’t like the Order of the Phoenix as much as the other books because it had some slower passages that were hard to get through at some point, but the Half-Blood-Prince just blew it. Once again the sub-plots were intertwined neatly into the story and were - although they seemed rather stupid (like Hagrid crying over the loss of his gigantic spider in the forbidden forest) - an important piece to the whole of the story. And I can definitely say now that the Half-Blood Prince is my second favourite book at this point.
(originally posted May 2016)
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