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Summary: More mystery and more suspense than Harry has ever imagined!
Review: "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" is the 3rd book in the Harry Potter series. Harry is in his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, but not all is great this time around. Word is out that a longtime prisoner at Azkaban named Sirius Black, who is supposedly real close to Voldemort, has escaped from the prison and is on his way to Hogwarts to try and find and then kill Harry Potter. What can Harry possibly do to stay hidden from the escaped prisoner who wants to kill him?I really liked the first two Harry Potter books, so of course I couldn't wait to read this book. All three of them are so great I can't make up my mind which one I think is the best. But I can say this: "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" has more mystery to it and a more intriguing premise than "The Sorcerer's Stone" and "The Chamber of Secrets" do. The idea from the beginning of the book about Harry being in serious trouble because someone is out to hunt him down and kill him really gets the suspense going. I'm not going to tell you what it is, but something that happens about two-thirds of the way through the book makes the mystery shoot through the roof. Also, the famous Quidditch matches, Harry's problems with Snape, and the summer with the Dursleys are all back and better than before! Even if you haven't read "The Sorcerer's Stone" or "The Chamber of Secrets," you still won't have any trouble figuring out what's going on or what happened earlier because the author, J.K. Rowling, shortly makes references to or describes many of the things that you need to know from the previous two books in "The Prisoner of Azkaban." But in my opinion, I think that most people would like "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" a lot better if they've already read the first two books before picking this one up. I recommend "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" to anybody who likes GREAT mystery/fantasy books. Once you start reading it, it'll be extremely hard to put it down, and once you finish reading it, you'll want to read every single book in the Harry Potter series!
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Summary: WOW!!!
Review: "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" is the best book I have ever read. It is a combination of magic, mystery, and fiction. It was difficult putting the book down. In this book, it is Harry Potter's third year at a wizard school called "Hogwarts School of Wichcraft and Wizardry". Also, Harry and his friends, Hermione and Ron, go through tough challenges against Demetors, Professor Snape, and much more. I found the book to be an good read and easy to follow. I recommend this book to people who like mystery, magic, and science fiction.
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Summary: Best book in the series so far!
Review: "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" isprobably the best book in the series so far. The plot is wonderfuland it's really cool how lots of things are happening at once. Hermione is really mad at Ron, Ron claims that Hermione's cat ate Scabbers but she won't believe it, and Harry just keeps getting into more and more trouble at Hogwarts. But everything comes together at the end, which is really awesome. Probably the best thing about the Harry Potter books are that you will never want to put the bookmark back in the book and hide it under the bed to be forgotten. You'll most likely want to finish the whole book in only a couple of days. Overall, Bravo J.K. Rowling!
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Summary: Ali
Review: "Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban" is a great addition to the Harry Potter series. In fact, I think that it is the best one out of the threesome. I liked how the characters seemed older and the surprise twist ending was great!! I can't wait for the next one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: The Best Book Ever
Review: "Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone" is a great book. I think that it is the best story in the series so far! Finally they have a good defence against dark arts teacher, but Snape hasn't changed one bit. First Ron and Harry miss the train to Hogwarts, and then, Hermione has a schedulde with 3 classes per hour! As usual Ms. Rowling misleads you, using her ever increasing talent, so that the ending is more surprising than ever! This story is so good, it makes you want to fly of a mountain with a broom! No story can beat this one!
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Summary: J.K. Rowling has a great imagination.
Review: "Harry Potter was a very unusual boy in many ways." This is the opening sentence for the third Harry Potter book. Harry is a third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is there again with his two friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. This year at Hogwarts will be action-packed and full of surprises. There is another Defense of the Dark Arts teacher this year, Professor Lupin. After blowing his aunt up like a balloon, Harry runs away and gets on a magical bus to Diagon alley. There he meets up with his friends. He overhears Ron's parents talking about an escaped prisoner, Sirius Black. He is supposedly partners with an evil wizard, Lord Voldemort. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are on the train to Hogwarts, when a dementor, a guard of Azkaban, a wizard prisoner, comes into their car. They will prove to be trouble for Harry. Will he be able to survive this year? This is a very good book. J.K.Rowling has a great imagination. That's what it takes to write this creatively. I think this book would be great for any age.
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Summary: Mystical, Magical, abosolutely Wonderful.
Review: "Harry Potter." In my school, home, and my entire town, just the name turns the heads of readers who have experienced the incredible work of J.K. Rowling. The first two were awesome (I LOVED the mystery in the second one, and the well- explained details in the first), and the third one for which you are reading my review, is know exception. Seriously, if you have read the first and second I can't begin to imagine why you would bother reading Amazon reviews before you bought i it. A definite five-star, HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN is a must read for all. J.K., hurry to write more!
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Summary: "Wow! This is definately the best of the bunch!"
Review: "I thought this was the best book out of the three books,but I was dissapointed in the end because harry didn't get to livewith Sirius Black. I can't wait till the next book arrives! I heard some very exciting rumours about Harry and the gangs adventures!"
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Summary: Still the Best
Review: "Prisoner of Azkaban" remains my favorite of the Harry Potter Series. Sirius Black is officially my favorite character now, and if you go back and read the first book, you are surprised to find that his name was mentioned in the first chapter. That's how well J. K. Rowling writes, and has everything planned out. Year 3 in the set of (four now) books is the most interesting and satisfying. The only problem was that it put Professor Snape under a new light...a bad one. Before this book, he was an interesting and seemingly justifiably nasty (wow, lots of "y's") character, but in this one, he goes too far. The rest of the book, however, is wonderful. The Dementors are truly terrifying if you allow them to be, and Professor Lupin is a pleasent surprise to the world of rapidly dissapearing Defense-of-Dark-Arts teachers. Charaters are developing insights and backrounds. I find that I read these books not for Harry, but for all the supporting "cast-members." We know all about Harry's past by this installment, and it's refreshing to know more about everyone elses. I only hope that the fifth book measures up to the standards I have set by this one. (And hopefully it's not as long and dragged out as the fourth, although it was emotionally enjoyable.) Thanks for putting up with my opinions.
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Summary: Well done...an improvement over the second.
Review: (Note: Writing as an adult) J.K. Rowling has a way with creating a world that could (and should) have been within a world that is. Even if you're a hopeless Muggle (her term for a mundane, nonmagical person), it's interesting to look at the ordinary world from a would-be wizards perspective. Perhaps best of all, she's captured what real school is like for normal kids -- the fact that it's wizardry that's being taught doesn't dilute the familiar spots from our own schooldays, from Harry's rivalry with the school bully Malfoy and his cronies, to ups and downs of teachers and classes, to snooping around and rulebreaking, to the sheer joy of playing in a team sport. Truthfully, while it's written for kids, there's lots of subtleties that the adults will appreciate -- anybody else ever think that Dumbledore giving all those points out at the last minute was a sly way of handing Harry, Ron, and Hermione a cookie for saving the school's collective butts, without admitting that it ever happened? The only thing that I dislike about this series is the message that it sends to kids that it's okay to break all the rules you want, as long as you're doing the right thing. I'd like to see a book that shows the value of knowing when NOT to break the rules. It's a fine line to walk, but an important one. It's for this that I say that the third is a vast improvement over the second, and to an extent over the first, as there are some bits of it that show when rule-breaking is bad.
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