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Summary: Harry Potter 5
Review: it was brilliant!! i finished it on Sunday morning and altogether took 13 hours to read! its one of the best of the books and it fills you in on a lot of backrounfd info about Voldemort. its also quite sad when the person dies, but i wont say who!! also there is a lot of surprises about Neville too. its def harrys most dangerous year and he learns a lot about himself and his family.he makes new friends and loses some.
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Summary: DEFINITELY well worth the long wait!
Review: When I was asked how I would describe this book, one word immediately came to mind; different. However, this book was not different in a bad way, it was different in a very good way. In the previous four Harry Potter books, Harry rarely considers the horrible hand that life has dealt him. This incredible novel really explores Harry's emotions in a variety of ways which will only suck you into the book more. I thoroughly enjoyed this book because of the dramatic and dark plot. For the younger fans of this series, be warned that this new installment in the series may be a bit confusing and harder to understand than the previous novels. This is because of the constant change from dialogue to Harry's thoughts, and the complicated labryinth of the text. I am aware that many Harry Potter fanatics (especially the younger readers) are worried about how far Rowling will go with the hormone issue. When I dove into the book, I didn't know what to expect at all about this controversial issue. I was very satisfied in the end, that Rowling did not take the romance too far, but she surely developed it enough. I'm sure all those who have been awaiting the arrival of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will not be at all disappointed with this phenomenal book. So fasten your seatbelts for a book unlike any you've read before, because JK Rowling has undoubtedly done it again!
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Summary: May Be The Best Yet
Review: I read this book in two days and I only put in down when my nose was in the center of the book due to sleep deprivation. I immensely enjoyed it to the very end. Yet I was sad and horrified that J. K. Rowling killed one of my favorite characters...but you have to read it to find out who. The book was dark, and I didn't think it very appropriate that these small children were reading this, but if it gets them to read I suppose everything evens out. Rowling has a talent for making the readers care for the characters, and experience what they are going through. The book definitely makes you laugh, but it also makes you cry. There is also a certain character in this book you love to hate, surprisingly other than Draco and his father. I loved all her books, and I definitely added this to my collection at 12:01 the Saturday it came out. It is a mixture of everything and comes together brilliantly. J. K. Rowling has truly created another magical masterpiece.
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Summary: Harry Potter is Coming of Age
Review: In J.K. Rowling's latest installment of the Harry Potter series, the reader is introduced to an older, and not necessarily wiser, Harry. Driven by teen angst, the book follows our protagonist through the ups and downs of being fifteen. Although Harry has several "diva fits" that seem to be a bit too far outside of his personality, Rowling has done an excellent job of capturing a teenager's confusions and rages. Following the formula of the past four installments, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix opens with Harry at the Dursleys and closes with the Hogwarts train. What happens in between these episodes is a roller coaster ride of emotions and allies. There is the traditional rivalry between Gryffindor and Slytherin, as well as some growing tension between Harry and his two best friends. Being that it is Harry's fifth year, the O.W.L.s are taking place, which adds to the characters' frustration levels. Because of the mishaps with the last Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, there is a new teacher at Hogwarts. In terms of grudges and surliness, she makes Professor Snape look more like Neville's grandma. As with the previous books, Dumbledore once again sheds some more light on Harry Potter's past. As an avid fan of the boy wizard, I was excited, yet concerned about all of the hype surrounding the newest book. In a world in which hype is needed to build up fans' hopes and then is often a complete let down, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix lives up to the readers' expectations. J.K. Rowling once again leaves us wanting more.
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Summary: Still more growing up to do...
Review: I found this book to be an entertaining read, but was also disappointed. It seemed to me than J. K. Rowling adjusted the mental capabilities and the maturity level of the main characters to suit the plot instead of the other way around. Some of the decisions they made or positions they took seemed rather implausible given the way they acted in the previous books.
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Summary: The best book in the series and probably in the world
Review: Its really good. I like the plot and the illustrations go well with it. I like the way that one of the charaters dies. Its very suspenseful.
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Summary: The best Potter yet!
Review: Rowling delivers a complex, fascinating tale that eloquently grasps the motives of dozens of characters. The wizarding world grows in complexity, but so do Rowling's characters. Almost never is adolescence explored so artfully in a work of fiction without a lot of obnoxious navel-gazing. In addition, a stirring, heroic (but not pat or too black-and-white) story is rounded out by the distractions Harry faces at Hogwarts (including a new, wonderfully constructed villain that readers love to hate). Simply incredible.
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Summary: Brilliant, Magical Infuriation!
Review: Fine, it's not a word, but it should be. How else to describe the thrilling fifth book in the Harry Potter series? Author J.K. Rowling has not been resting on her laurels, but instead pushing, or allowing, her characters to grow into increasingly interesting and complex individuals, an absolute necessity - for the growth of the series, the characters, and the legions of readers - as the world they encompass becomes ever more challenging. The teenage years are traumatic enough without the added weight of saving your friends, and humanity - magical and muggle - being thrust upon your shoulders, yet Harry Potter deals with it while still finding time to study, practice Quidditch and embark on the wonderful and terrifying adventures of dating. And how does he deal with it? Awkwardly, driven by love and anger, joy and sorrow, and with a lot of help from his friends. Indignities, injustices and homework are but a few of the burdens heaped upon Harry, Hermione, Ron, Neville and the rest at a startling rate, creating a teenage emotional miasma that swirls and pulses through the book, giving it a palpable vicariousness that had this 35-year-old reader checking the mirror for acne and spell-induced hexes when he was finished...and wishing butterbeer, chocolate frogs, friendship, loyalty and adventure had been this plentiful when I went to school.
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Summary: It's magic!
Review: It's a wonderful book and I really like it, plus it's a challenge to read since it's so long. I like the style of writing and every body should have a copy.
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Summary: Sad...depressing...
Review: NOT for children. But still...I can't say marvelous. The ending tore me up. Maybe because I love this series so much I can't make a good review as it has changed so much about what I think of it. Harry is taken to the edge of insanity and back, then to the edge again. Ron becomes Keeper, but that is the least of the Gryffindor Quidditch team's trouble. Prefects? Not who you think. Death? Sad. Blood? Far too much of. Maybe that is my one bone to pick with the book this time around. Too much blood. Everyone bleeds at least once. Yes, I recommend it, but only to the fans. If you're just getting into the Harry Potter world, or you can't take major, major disappointment, this is not the book for you right now.
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