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Summary: Best In Series
Review: With more twists and turns than a labyrinth, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the best in the series so far. The characters we've grown to love get more depth. After the events in Goblet of Fire, this book can't help but be darker. Get a box of tissue ready, because this is gonna get the water works going. The action and drama never stops, with comedy added in at just the right spots. This one's a page turner, folks, so hunker down for a good long read of 870 pages of good quality fiction.
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Summary: Where's her editor?
Review: J.K. Rowling's world of wizardry and witchcraft gains new depth in her latest release. You are there as Harry Potter and gang, now 5th year students at Hogwarts, study like mad in order to prep for their O.W.L.s. Rowling continues to shine in bringing rich texture and nuance to all things magical.From a story perspective, however, there's not much here. Harry takes a full 200 pages to make it to Hogwarts, and once there deals with a decidely distant Dumbledore, an increasingly annoying new Defense against the Dark Arts professor, and a continuously injured (mysteriously) Hagrid. Secrets, omens, and nightmares abound, but that's about it as the book meanders over 700 pages before any real action starts. We do learn more about Harry's parents, particularly his dad, but in general the only real character development is seeing Harry deal with being a teenager, in which he's basically mad and confused all the time. In the end we don't really learn anything new. The book lacks any truly stunning twists and the climax is pretty pointless. Even Dumbledore's standard sit-down with Harry in the penultimate chapter lacks any real insight; the paragraph(s) everyone has been eagerly waiting for (following the "Please sit down, I am going to tell you everything" teaser) essentially tells us nothing we haven't already guessed. There's no breath-taking revelation that, as an example, Lord Voldemort is actually Luke's, er, Harry's dad. Everyone following the Harry Potter series will buy this book and spend every stolen moment possible reading it. In the coming interim before the next release, though, most people will let this book gather dust while rereading the previous four books. And when the next release comes maybe, just maybe, some of these readers will wait to see what the reviews are before purchasing. If it's more filler before the concluding volume they'll probably wait to borrow a friend's copy, a library copy, or the softcover version. Here's hoping that Rowling takes note and puts more into the next volume's narrative.
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Summary: Harry Potter Contiunes
Review: The 5th installment of Harry Potter offered more of what we have come to expect, a magical world where anything can happen. In this book the plot continues to thicken and the world of wizardry has grown much more dark and dangerous. Overall I enjoyed the book, although I felt that Harry spent too much time at the begining of the book getting mad at anyone and everyone. The story is much more enjoyable once Harry settles down a bit and for that I had to take away one star. For anyone who has read Harry Potter before this is as good as the rest of them. Now we only have to wait a couple more years until the next one...
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Summary: woop!
Review: This book was wonderful, and more to say i cannot wait for the next ones to follow, and period of turmoil and anticipation. It was a story of aging, and bursts of anger, ones that you might find in your own non-magical lifestyle. Harry grows with the reader and entertains all kinds of audiences once again, in this case, me. Characters remerged with powerful importance, and ones dear to our hearts came back with sweet appearances, and sorrowful partings.
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Summary: The story continues...
Review: The wait was pretty much worth it. I am amazed at how Rowling can constantly create a world and characters that pulls a reader in. While I still have no opinion on the death of a character, I think the book is great. I never believed there could be someone more evil then Draco Malfoy or Professor Snape, but she out did herself with Professor Umbridge. Her constant honey like voice was enought to make me hope that something bad would happen to her. And the reader gets their wish. The final revelation of the prophecy is a wonderful tie in to the entire series. I can't wait until the next one. Just hope I don't have to wait three more years!
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Summary: A Step Up for Harry Potter
Review: All the die-hard Potter fans will enjoy the book, no doubt, but beware for a change of pace. I rather liked the change. The book reads a little differently from the others, the humor and personality that has always been a part of the Harry Potter books still present. If you did not have a problem reading Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix's 120 extra pages is no big deal. The writing style seems to appeal more to a higher age group than before, making things a little more insightful. Although it tends to be quite predictable, it still has some unusual twists, interesting discoveries, and the same air that made these books so popular. It continues the Harry Potter tradition with class. All Potter fans should enjoy it, and the book leaves the reader with the same dread and speculation the fourth book did in the end.
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Summary: The best Harrry Potter Yet!
Review: This book is so much darker and angrier than the previous ones, but the writing level seems more mature and confident. JK has a way of luring in the reader into a completely fictious world of her creation and makes us believe that the charaters and events are alive and happening. I applaud JK for not bowing to pressure and fame and taking her time to deliver her best work to date. It would have been easy for her to rest on her laurels and write a "formula" book, but she seemed to have put her heart and soul into this book. Congratulations JK!
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Summary: The BEST Book Ever AND the BEST Book in the "HP" Series!!
Review: Goodness Gracious! This book blew me away! I am very well pleased first of all with J.K Rowling. She has written a magnificent series and now has this awesome book to contribute to it. The book starts off (as always) at his aunt and uncle's house and I don't want to give any of the book away to you, but lets just say...things happen at home and at Hogwarts, that will make you grab hold of the book and not let go! I, am not a person who reads very much, and let me tell you, I stayed inside for about 4 days reading this book! I was glued to this book from the get-go! I highly recommend this book to EVERYONE!! I loved it!
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Summary: Superb and sad, Harry's fifth adventure takes a darker turn
Review: A little over an hour ago I finished reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and now there are far too many things that I would like to say. As a 16 year-old fan of the books, I have barely surpassed Harry and Company in age, and I understand all the teenage angst and struggles that Rowling has so artfully infused in this installment. She has taken Harry to a new level. Phoenix is much darker, and in my opinion much scarier, because the fear does not come from a three-headed dog or a giant snake, but Harry's own mind. He is tormented by nightmares and worries, and life is no longer going his way. I am still in shock, I think, from the heart-pounding and heart-breaking climax of the book -- I cried so hard that I had to stop reading for awhile and calm down. Rowling delivers everything we expect from a Harry Potter adventure -- laughs, tears, friendship, bravery, sacrifice -- but she has done it in a fresh and beautifully "grown-up" way. Now I can't wait for Book 6, I just hope it does not take her another 3 years to write it!
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Summary: Harry Potter 5 is GREAT!
Review: I think Harry Potter 5 has more mystierious,dangerous, and evil characters.There is a new professor called professor Umbrige who wants to seize power.She's doing everything she can to torture Harry and his friends.Hagrid was missing for the first and second term, but he finaly revealed his secret.........and the rest you have to read yourself.
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